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'The Damascus Events': How the 1860 massacre shaped the modern Middle East

the damascus events: the 1860 massacre and the making of the modern middle east eugene rogan penguin: allen lane, £30, 400 pages on jul...
Alexander Faludy

‘God is not mocked’: Harrison Butker weighs in on Last Supper controversy at Olympics

harrison butker has added his voice to other public figures calling out the anti-christian crassness that was overtly on display during the ...
James Jeffrey

Pride: How it is intimately bound up with the rejection of God's omnipotence

the university of oxford hosts a sermon every year in st mary’s church on the sin of pride. part of the joke, in my day, was that they used ...
AN Wilson

National Grandparents Pilgrimage occurring against euthanasia creep in UK

the world day for grandparents and elderly will be marked by a number of pilgrimages throughout the uk on sunday 28 july, a few days after a...
James Jeffrey

The need for Christ-centred volunteering: a trustee of Depaul International and the SVP reflects

seeing christ in the poor and serving christ in the poor has helped helen o’shea sustain her volunteering since she began with the st vincen...
Anita Boniface

INTERVIEW: Mother Abbess of thriving traditionalist order in US discusses their move to a 19th-century abbey in England

the benedictines of mary, queen of the apostles are one of the success stories in the contemporary church. going from strength to strength, ...
Tom Colsy

New ‘God’s Gang’ cartoon tries hard to explore interfaith dialogue and relations – but fails

superheroes, evil aliens, trippy plotlines, comic disproportion, a farting planet. the new cartoon series god’s gang has all the trappings o...
KateBanks

Chaldean bishops praise Iraqi prime minister for reinstating patriarch but decry 'agony of Christians' in country

closing their annual synod meeting the chaldean bishops highlighted the persecution of christians and the scourge of seemingly unending conf...
Elise Allen

Top Vatican diplomat makes first visit to Ukraine since war

rome – on friday, vatican secretary of state italian cardinal pietro parolin began a 6-day visit to ukraine to close a popular marian pilgri...
Elise Ann Allen

Why the Book of Jonah is full of enigma, by Pierbattista Pizzaballa OFM

there are many biblical books that fascinate me, from both the old and the new testaments. reading genesis, exodus and the psalms always mov...
Pierbattista Pizzaballa OFM