What we can learn from the Church in Mexico
Authors
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Alexander Lucie-Smith is a Catholic priest and a doctor of moral theology. On Twitter he is @ALucieSmith
The Power and the Glory remains the greatest argument for Catholicism ever made
Monday, 13 February 2012
Greene’s novel is a great argument for the faith, but so is the country in which it was set
The faith of Mexicans is profoundly moving
Thursday, 9 February 2012
The kingdom of saints is real to the people of this country
Dickens is disappointingly thin – give me AN Wilson anytime
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
A very good novel can make a Mexican bus journey pass very quickly
Despite reports of violence, I feel totally safe walking around Mexico
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Some 50,000 people have been killed in the war on drugs, and yet the country will survive this calamity as it has survived others
At last I can start to understand the American Civil War
Monday, 30 January 2012
In the history books, though, the conflict rages on
We ought to applaud ‘real-life superheroes’
Thursday, 26 January 2012
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith says that Catholic teaching offers support to the self-styled superheroes fighting crime from Yeovil to Seattle
Taking drugs should be legal but discouraged in the same way as smoking
Monday, 23 January 2012
The war on drugs hasn’t worked. Cigarette smoking, on the other hand, has declined steadily since the Second World War
How Catholic was Puccini?
Friday, 20 January 2012
A new, Freudian study suggests the composer’s Catholicism was skin deep
Why religion can never be ‘a private matter’
Religious-secular debate continues to be a dialogue of the deaf