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The flesh made word
collected poems rowan williams carcanet, £15.99, 249 pages ________ the poetry of rowan williams is full of moments when the known world bec...
Susannah Herbert
The genial prince who could stir Rome up
fra’ matthew festing who has died aged 71 in valletta, malta, was the 79th grand master of the sovereign military order of malta. he was the...
John Martin Robinson
Dobbs v. Jackson: What did Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett say?
as the wait begins for a decision in the dobbs v. jackson women’s health organization abortion case, close attention will be pai...
Jonah McKeown
Detroit archbishop 'heartbroken' over Michigan school shooting
archbishop allen vigneron of detroit said he was “heartbroken” on tuesday after hearing of the “horrific tragedy” of a school shooting outsi...
Joseph Bukuras
Christmas books for children
"christmas won’t be christmas without any presents", grumbled jo, lying on the rug.” the opening of little women has had children nodding in...
Sophia Waugh
Rome is where the heart is
by any standards, the news that michael nazir-ali had been received into the catholic faith is stunning. the former church of england bishop...
Jonathan Petre
Seeking solitude
when patrick leigh fermor turned up at the gates of the monastery of saint–wandrille de fontenelle in normandy, he was trying to finish a bo...
Artemis Cooper
Could ‘Housing First’ end homelessness?
at the beginning of the first lockdown in march 2020, a government scheme called “everyone in” succeeded in getting almost every single pers...
Olenka Hamilton
Maintaining the Christmas spirit
'i will honour christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” what a striking promise scrooge makes to the spirit of christmas yet...
Niall Gooch
GUIDE TO COUNTRY HOUSE CHAPELS
after the accession of elizabeth i in 1558, catholics were forced out of the ancient parish churches of england. by act of parliament, catho...
John Martin Robinson and Michael Hodges
An Abbot’s Notebook
this year, christmas midnight mass will mark exactly 900 years since st norbert and his first followers made their vows at midnight mass in ...
Abbott Hugh Allan
Diary: Memories of Christmas down the years and across the seas
it was when i first saw uncle john harman’s black trousers protruding under father christmas’s scarlet robe that my world changed. up till t...
Antonia Fraser
Celebrating the total victory of life even as we struggle
a child is born for us, and a son is given to us (isaiah 9:5) the mass of christmas day begins with these joyful words of isaiah’s...
Bishop Mark Davies
The joy of unexpected things
in a pivotal scene in evelyn waugh’s novel brideshead revisited , the agnostic narrator and main character charles ryder interrogates ...
Ken Craycraft
Contemplating death at Christmas
we are winding up another year overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic, and as we do so we are accompanied by hymns and carols heralding th...
Karl Gustel Warnberg
The father we need
even before the birth of jesus, saint joseph was a model for a christian married man. when he discovered that mary, his bride-to-be, was pre...
Piers Paul Read
Stop the horror of persecution
when a young christian girl from pakistan called farah shaheen was abducted from her home, not in their worst nightmares could her family im...
John Pontifex
Christmas presence
confiteor: i rather enjoyed christmas 2020. having agreed with my parents that, in the context of a global pandemic, driving to wales and ba...
Serenhedd James
The long shadow of Covid
i have recently been reading david spiegelhalter and anthony masters’ covid by numbers: making sense of the pandemic with data (...
Stephen Bullivant
The Christmas Stories
there are all sorts of reasons why we choose the mass we usually go to: maybe it’s the music, or the lack of it, or the bells and smells, or...
Rev Dr Richard J Ounsworth
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