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Praying outside an abortion clinic is never boring
By on Thursday, 13 October 2011
Extreme reactions occur occasionally, but the atmosphere is peaceful and the public more supportive than you might think
For atheists, death is the only point of life – that is Christianity’s great selling point
By on Thursday, 13 October 2011
While we should, like Steve Jobs, live every day like it was our last, we should never allow our lives to be defined by this ‘one appalling fact’
Here’s an e-petition we should all support: that ‘children’s TV should carry a government health warning’
By on Thursday, 13 October 2011
Whether you agree that Catholics should actually Unplug their Televisions, we need to understand that this is a dangerous medium
Morning Catholic must-reads: 13/10/11
By on Thursday, 13 October 2011
A daily guide to what’s happening in the Catholic Church
The Joanna Yeates trial and the Salvation Army chaplain who heard a confession of murder
By on Wednesday, 12 October 2011
The details of the case have been distressing: surely the jury can hear these in private?
Today’s Catholic must-reads: 12/10/11
By on Wednesday, 12 October 2011
A daily guide to what’s happening in the Catholic Church
The Holy Father calls for a faith stripped of worldly habits
By on Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Much of the 1950s, Home Counties Church that I grew up in had become a matter of mere convention
Every time I spend any time abroad, I wonder why, in a ‘global world’, we abandoned a global liturgy
By on Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Mass in Latin unified the world Church: the vernacular has Balkanised it
Stop believing in guardian angels and soon we’ll stop believing in anything
Guardian angels come low down on the list of Christian beliefs, yet we should not dismiss them as ‘childish’. Abandon ideas such as this and the whole edifice of belief soon falls down