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Sustenance for mind and body
when i was at school, the announcement of the annual lenten retreat was awaited with some pleasure. it was a one-day event, held at various ...
Joanna Bogle
Vatican: Teachers in Church schools have duty to uphold Catholic ethos
the vatican’s education congregation has published a document responding to conflicts over the interpretation of the concept of “catholic id...
Hannah Brockhaus
Fearing is believing
‘the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. so said franklin d roosevelt in his 1933 inauguration speech. he was paraphrasing the ameri...
Constance Watson
Fighting for faith
in father stu, mark wahlberg’s deeply personal new film, the titular character is looking for hollywood fame, and love. a boxer-turned-super...
Nick Ripatrazone
Diary: Witnessing the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine
‘have a good trip”, says the faded tourism leaflet taped to the window of the ukrainian border guard post with hungary at beregsurány. i was...
William Cash
Three is the magic number
a recurring topic of conversation among my jolly group of “mum friends” at the moment seems to be about whether or not to go for the third c...
Olenka Hamilton
Are women philosophers different?
metaphysical animals: how four women brought philosophy back to life clare mac cumhaill and rachel wiseman chatto and windus, £25, 416 pages...
Gertrude Clarke
Pain and suffering in God’s broken world
"if you believe in a loving god, why do babies die of leukemia?” i’d never engaged seriously before with the question, but when faced with h...
Mark Dowd
Odessa bishop claims Putin is "possessed by the Devil"
odessa, ukraine bishop stanislav shyrokoradiuk pulls no punches when asked about russian president putin's motivation for invading ukraine. ...
John Cookson
Aid to the Church in Need appoints new UK director
the uk office of a charity helping persecuted and other suffering christians has announced the appointment of its new chief executive. ...
Staff Reporter
Catholics campaign for presidential veto of abortion bill in Ecuador
the ecuadorian congress approved on february 17 the depenalization of abortion for victims of rape. the catholic church had made several eff...
Eduardo Campos Lima
A year after Pope Francis's historic visit, Iraq's Christians face new threats
there can't be many priests who celebrate mass in an empty church. but the archbishop of mosul, mgr najeeb michaeel, has little choice. most...
John Cookson
Better to keep children chaste than to chasten John Fisher
the problem with the movement designated as d.i.e. (diversity, inclusivity and equality) is that its ‘inclusivity’ has never included christ...
Gavin Ashenden
“Never in our history have a million people entered Poland in just 10 days"
a tale of good people with a lump in his throat, the exhausted ukrainian president says at a press conference: "i don't know who could be do...
Marcin Wiklo
Are you self-serving?
‘excuse me, but are you self-serving?” the question took me by surprise, and i could only apologetically ask my interlocutor to repeat it fr...
Serenhedd James
Aid to the Church in Need gives £830,000 in emergency money to war-torn Ukraine
“thanks to the help of the world, ukraine resists, and we believe it will survive. here we have been helping the displaced, supplying air-ra...
John Newton
The problem with ‘Pills by Post’
on 31 january 2022, the times reported that leading doctors were warning of “illegal abortions danger”. their concern was that regulations i...
Sir Stephen Stewart
Pope pleads for Church to dedicate Ash Wednesday as day of fasting and prayer for peace in Ukraine
pope francis has renewed his appeal for the entire catholic church to dedicate ash wednesday as a day of prayer and fasting for peace in ukr...
Simon Caldwell
Rescusants revisited
an aristocratic catholic friend once told me that his father would refer to a co-religionist landowner as “cousin x”, despite the family con...
Jeremy Musson
An entertaining masterpiece that reveals sides of an extraordinary woman never before seen
maria theresa: the habsburg empress in her time barbara stollberg-rilinger, translated by robert savage princeton university press, £35, 110...
AN Wilson
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