Christopher Howse offers some practical advice for daydreamers
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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
‘Beer has something to teach Christians’

Anna Arco talks to J Wilson, the beer enthusiast who is following the example of Bavarian friars by consuming nothing but alcohol in Lent
‘Prayer is absolutely essential – or you die’

Ed West meets Fr Michael Shields, the priest who exchanged the frozen wastes of Alaska for the post-Soviet wilderness of Siberia
‘Satan should hold a party when we die’

Mark Greaves talks to Matthew Fradd, the 28-year-old who conquered his porn addiction and is helping others to do the same
Pope Benedict XVI: the Last Supper

Here we print an extract from the Pope’s new book, Jesus of Nazareth Part II




Morning Catholic must-reads: 22/05/12
By Luke Coppen