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Francis Phillips

America can unite by following the example of Martin Luther King, not Donald Trump
January 16, 2017
The President-elect wants 'to make America great again', but his vision is limited
How I learned to love the beautiful customs of Epiphany
January 09, 2017
I'm ready to embrace the small and symbolic traditions that I once thought of as archaic
The poem that sums up the selflessness of the English martyrs
January 06, 2017
Blessed Thomas Belson was only 23 when he wrote of his imprisonment. Three years later, he was dead
The spiritual masterpiece that beat the censors
January 05, 2017
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Boris Pasternak’s classic novel, Doctor Zhivago. Problems with Russian censorship meant it was first published by an Italian company, Feltrinelli. The English translation followed in 1958, which was the year I first encountered it, aged 12. This was the year that Pasternak was awarded the
Let’s remember the prophecy of Benedict XVI as we begin the New Year
January 04, 2017
In 1970 Joseph Ratzinger predicted the Church's declining influence in the world
Mary Kenny: the former ‘bad girl’ with a John Henry Newman tattoo
December 22, 2016
The Catholic writer and Herald columnist speaks to me about her heroes and the adage she lives by
Spiritual Books round-up
December 22, 2016
Communion of Saints by Stephen Walford, Angelico Press, £17 Subtitled “The Unity of Divine Love in the Mystical Body of Christ”, this book explores a doctrine that, as Walford suggests, went out of fashion after the Second Vatican Council: the communion among members of the Church on earth (the Church Militant), the Holy Souls in purgatory
The key to true friendship? Christlike self-sacrifice
December 20, 2016
Experience shows that 'laying down one's life' is a mark of real love
There are far more disabled saints than you think
December 15, 2016
A new book about saints with disabilities is a reminder that everyone has a vocation
A fitting tribute to Our Lady of Guadalupe
December 12, 2016
Francis Phillips picks out her favourite books of 2016
Hans and Sophie Scholl exemplify the moral courage every Christian needs
December 08, 2016
The siblings were executed after they distributed literature alerting people to the evil of Nazism
Spiritual books round-up
December 08, 2016
An Exorcist Explains the Demonic by Fr Gabriele Amorth, Sophia Institute Press, £12 Fr Amorth, famous as the late chief exorcist of Rome, wrote this book with a priest-confrère before he died this year. It sums up his experiences, recorded in earlier writings, about facing “the antics of Satan and his army of fallen angels”.
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