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What the Book of Jonah teaches us about God’s compassion
the question came in a deceptively simple guise: “what is your favourite scriptural text?” normally the answer would be: “the one i am worki...
Fr Nicholas King SJ
Quarr Abbey monk on the meaning of identity
since time immemorial, pilgrims have been travelling to islands to meet holy men and women, and so it was that i found myself heading for qu...
Mark Jenkins
How will Pope Francis mark this year's significant anniversaries?
pope francis will face many challenges in 2023 – but it’s a year that also happens to be filled with significant anniversaries, including th...
Diana Montagna
The meaning of Matthew
we are back to year a in the lectionary, which means that for most of the year we shall be reading from st matthew’s gospel on sundays. the ...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
New book on forgiveness through literature gives Catholics much to ponder
allow me to indulge in a public confession: of all the tenets of catholicism, the one i struggle with the most is forgiveness. we are called...
Nick Ripatrazone
Believing in a better Britten
sometimes christianity creeps into opera in unwelcome ways. a notorious example is benjamin britten’s rape of lucretia which tells the ancie...
Michael White
Feasting does not have to be lavish to be festal
preparation is crucial to celebrating christmas well. but so often the kind of preparation most people mean only really adds pressure, and p...
Albert Robertson OP
Pasta: la vista - a History of the Italian food staple
on 1 april 1957, the bbc current affairs programme panorama presented a three-minute documentary item showing a swiss family, in t...
Jeremy Haselock
Benedict XVI: a teacher for the whole world
it was the morning of 19 april 2005, and i was in north carolina. i was a senior at duke divinity school and was in duke chapel with my spir...
Matthew Olver
The shape-shifting nature of treason
‘hanged, drawn, quar- tered, beheaded, shot – even boiled…” from its outset, the national archive’s exhibition treason: people, power and pl...
Philip Sidney
Heritage: A History of How We Conserve Our Past, by James Stourton
heritage: a history of how we conserve our past james stourton head of zeus, £40, 496 pages james stourton chooses a quotation on the theme ...
William Cash
English Victorian Churches: Architecture, Faith and Revival, by James Steven Curl
english victorian churches: architecture, faith and revival james stevens curl john hudson publishing, £50, 240 pages this handsome little b...
Michael Hodges
Sins of a honey-toned broadcaster
confessions: life re-examined edward stourton penguin doubleday, £20, 304 pages edward stourton, the distinguished broadcaster from an emine...
Sir Nicholas Coleridge
Catholic-Jewish relations 60 years after Vatican II
jacob’s younger brother karma ben-johanan harvard university press, £30.95, 336 pages i remember once presenting a paper on the theological ...
Dr Bede Rowe OSB
The many parallels between the boxing ring and the spiritual life
martial arts, boxing and the catholic faith seem unlikely bedfellows. once again british heavyweight tyson “gypsy king” fury has retained hi...
Karl Gustel Warnberg
A Protestant attempt to establish a version of Catholicism without the papacy in Rome
i have often been the victim of swot analysis – away-days with colleagues where we are forced to reflect on strengths and weaknesses, opport...
Dr Mark Chapman
Father Brown and the Mystery of Chesterton
with due deference to the originator of the latest foray in to the world of father brown, i doubt many devotees of gk chesterton’s clerical ...
Fr Hugh Somerville-Knapman
Piero’s new-look Nativity
after three years of painstaking work, piero della francesca’s famous nativity, from the early 1480s, returned to public display in the nati...
Hugh Kerr
The astronomy and astrology of the star of Bethlehem
before the 16th century, christians generally assumed that the star of bethlehem must have been some kind of astrological miracle. for insta...
Fr Robert Verrill OP
Benedict XVI: Compassion without compromise
it was thursday 18 august, 2005, and we were on the banks of the rhine in cologne. hand in hand, my friend and i had run, squealing, back an...
Margaret Nicholson
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