The foster father of Jesus appears only briefly in the gospels, says Fr James Martin SJ, but he still inspires a life of service
Latest Features
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The atheist orthodoxy that drove me to faith
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Megan Hodder was a young, avid reader of the New Atheists, but her life changed when she read the work of their Catholic foes
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‘There’s hunger for mercy in the world’
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Cardinal Seán O’Malley talks to Mary O’Regan about Irish abortion legislation, Pope Francis and his new role as a ‘super cardinal’
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‘Being a Catholic Liberal can be difficult’
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Peter Stanford speaks to Sarah Teather, the MP who defied the coalition on welfare and gay marriage
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How Catholics can conquer depression
Thursday, 2 May 2013
An American psychiatrist explains what inspired him to write a guide to the condition specifically for members of the Church
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My poignant journey in search of the martyrs
Tuesday, 30 April 2013When Nancy Bilyeau began writing an historical thriller she got up close to the horror of the Reformation
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Franciscans display their gifts of faith and power
Friday, 26 April 2013
Jill, Duchess of Hamilton on a spectacular exhibition of Franciscan treasures brought to the Palace of Versailles from the Holy Land
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The nightmare ended in jazz and cigarettes
Thursday, 18 April 2013
Ed West says that Norman Stone’s new book is yet another lapidary work of genius
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‘Catholics ought to avoid extremes’
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Archbishop Gerhard Müller, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, speaks exclusively to Mary O’Regan
Who was to blame for the First World War?
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
A new book looks at the many culprits who caused the catastrophe
The Irish famine was an unnatural disaster
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Historian Tim Pat Coogan considers who was responsible for abandoning countless starving, ragged families to the Great Irish Famine
‘The Catholic Church is extremely poetic’
Thursday, 22 November 2012
Miguel Cullen talks to Sally Read, a convert whose acclaimed poetry draws on her experiences as a psychiatric nurse in London
Our political masters need to get this: theological problems can only have theological solutions
By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith