Some think that smartphones are a threat to spiritual life. Nonsense, says Angelo Stagnaro
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Note to readers: missing clues for crossword 235
Monday, 14 May 2012
Here we publish the missing clues to last week’s crossword
A Michelin-starred chef on why families should always eat together
Thursday, 10 May 2012
It matters more than you think, says Richard Corrigan
‘I knew I’d never see complete victory’
Monday, 7 May 2012
In her last major interview, published on March 2, veteran campaigner Phyllis Bowman talked to Madeleine Teahan about her 45-year ‘battle for the baby’
The poet who saved a saint’s priceless letters
Friday, 4 May 2012
Joseph Pearce recalls the extraordinary life of Roy Campbell, who hid St John of the Cross’s letters from Spanish militiamen
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The priest who prayed the rosary and heard Confessions as the Titanic sank
Monday, 16 April 2012Fr Thomas Byles, who grew up in Lancashire, was described by Pope Pius X as a ‘martyr for the Church’
As I lay dying a voice said: ‘Let’s go’
Monday, 9 April 2012
Howard Storm tells Rory Fitzgerald about the near-death experience that turned him from a cynical professor into a devout pastor
The rock star who met Christ on a jog
Friday, 30 March 2012
Dion DiMucci tells Rory Fitzgerald that a ‘sudden and brilliant’ encounter inspired him to give up heroin and embrace the faith
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The rise of the new super elite
Thursday, 8 March 2012
Ed West says that Charles Murray’s careful study of America’s growing social divide is disturbing
Marriage: it’s time to clear away the fog
Wednesday, 7 March 2012
Christopher West says that Catholics need a firm understanding of marriage if they are to resist attempts to alter its meaning
How I became a medieval-style anchorite
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
The author, a hermit, explains how she was transformed in her mid-50s from a professional woman into a ‘prisoner of the Lord’
Meet the toughest clerics who ever lived
Thursday, 23 February 2012
Daniel Kalder says that St Ignatius set a high standard when a cannonball tore open his leg
It is now time to undo the injustice bishops are doing to too many priests, falsely accused of child abuse and now vindicated, but still torn from their priesthood
By William Oddie