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Mary Kenny
Praying out of habit is better than not praying at all
in his first audience of 2019, pope francis urged the faithful not to “parrot” their prayers – and to cease trying to “flatter” god by repea...
2019 is the year of Leonardo da Vinci
the single currency devised by the european union, the euro, is 20 years old this month. my personal disappointment with this financial inno...
The untold life of the woman who wrote 'In the Bleak Midwinter'
this, surely, is one of the most poetic of christmas carols: in the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, earth stood hard as iron, water ...
Rights need more than declarations
seventy years ago this week, the un’s universal declaration of human rights was published, and its clarion call of basic human rights for al...
The leader who signed his own death warrant
in the late autumn of 1921, michael collins, arthur griffith and their team of four others travelled to london to engage in talks with the b...
The Bible doesn't need 'trigger warnings', just sound analysis
it’s been recommended that some passages of the bible should be accompanied by “trigger warnings” – the phrase coined in american universiti...
Is a man entitled to kill to defend his property from burglars?
is a man entitled to use a gun to defend his property from burglars – and then shoot dead one of these intruders? i found that a difficult m...
Airbrushing the Bible out of the First World War
for the soldiers in the trenches of the first world war, the comforts of faith were essential. indeed, so bravely did the french priests ser...
Why Britain has a problem with adoption
we are accustomed to seeing photographs of american film stars with their adopted children. madonna has four, angelina jolie has three and m...
Thou shalt not go to the ball
are fairy tales next in the queue to be banned for young children? the “influencers” – individuals and organisations wielding cultural influ...
Mankind’s troubling new frontiers
most people, i believe, want to be kind, want to be tolerant, and want, indeed, to follow the christian precept of “love thy neighbour”. one...
Two witty guides to canals and crocodiles
one of the most uplifting tv series is back on the box for an autumn season: timothy west and prunella scales’s great canal journeys (channe...
My sister’s tips on tipping
is restaurant tipping a moral issue? for my late sister, ursula, it was. she was, i thought, a wild over-tipper, always adding 20 per cent t...
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