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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Five ways to lose the argument with atheists
Thursday, 17 May 2012
Next time you find yourself sucked into a debate with secularists be careful not to make these five classic mistakes, says Peter D Williams
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’
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The poet who saved a saint’s priceless letters
Friday, 4 May 2012Joseph Pearce recalls the extraordinary life of Roy Campbell, who hid St John of the Cross’s letters from Spanish militiamen
The priest who prayed the rosary and heard Confessions as the Titanic sank
Monday, 16 April 2012
Fr 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
More Features
How your mobile phone can help you pray

Some think that smartphones are a threat to spiritual life. Nonsense, says Angelo Stagnaro
The rise of the new super elite
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

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

The author, a hermit, explains how she was transformed in her mid-50s from a professional woman into a ‘prisoner of the Lord’




Morning Catholic must-reads: 21/05/12
By Luke Coppen