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June is the holiest month

The Church’s calendar reveals June as a month rich in saints, solemnities and reminders of God’s plan for human flourishing

Clement Harrold

The fire that remakes

The Church’s great mystics understood that the Holy Spirit does not preserve complacency, but breaks open the soul in order to renew it

The Christian duty to be less informed

In an age of viral outrage, manipulated clips and endless commentary, Christians should resist both convenient falsehoods and the compulsion to know everything

Punk at 50: freedom, rebellion and the void

The fury of punk exposed the decay of post-war Britain, yet the movement left behind a cultural void it could not fill

Truth in an age of confusion

The contrast between the Tower of Babel and Pentecost offers a powerful lesson about the dangers of pride and the transformative power of the Holy Spirit

Jacqueline O'Hara

America’s Declaration and the paradox of unalienable rights

The moral paradoxes at the heart of the American founding continue to shape debates over liberty, equality and the limits of liberal individualism

The charismatic movement: the good, the bad and the ugly

A personal and historical reflection on the charismatic movement’s promise, its excesses and its enduring spiritual appeal

Fr Dwight Longenecker

In Yeats’s bee-loud glade

In the hives of rural Galway, one beekeeper has found a living lesson in providence, stewardship and the quiet wisdom of the natural order

Declan J. Ganley

Will there be food in Heaven?

The Resurrection affirms the goodness of the body and hints at a renewed creation in which nothing good is lost

Clement Harrold

The implications of presuming human 'innocence': Rousseau and wickedness

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