Justin Portess on the unsung heroism of the Irish regiments
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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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The story of Jack Bodenham – one of 19,240 British men who lost their lives on July 1, 1916
Friday, 9 November 2012
On the eve of Remembrance Day Stephen Cooper traces the life of an Ampleforth boy who fell in a hail of fire in the First World War
How to make your best Confession ever
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith urges Catholics to enter the confessional with newfound courage
If you want to help the world’s poor, support the religious orders
Thursday, 1 November 2012
Missionary orders stay with the destitute long after every western charity has left
‘It all came together in the Himalayas’
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
Archbishop Charles Brown, the Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland, tells Mary O’Regan his faith truly came alive when trekking in Tibet
Pope Benedict didn’t finish his final encyclical. His first, Deus Caritas Est, was started by Pope John Paul: couldn’t Pope Francis complete his last?
By William Oddie