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The rock star who met Christ on a jog

Dion DiMucci, performing here in New York’s Mercury Lounge, describes John Lennon’s celebrated song Imagine as ‘an anthem for a self-centred wretch’  (Photo: PA)

Dion DiMucci tells Rory Fitzgerald that a ‘sudden and brilliant’ encounter inspired him to give up heroin and embrace the faith

How your mobile phone can help you pray

An iPhone owner uses Confession: Roman Catholic App to prepare for the sacrament (Photo: CNS)

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

A Russian bride walks through the mist on her wedding day. The Church has an ‘incredibly rich body of teaching’ on marriage

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

An anchorite's cell at Fore Abbey, County Westmeath, Ireland

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