We asked prominent Christians what they are giving up for Lent. Their answers range from blogs to fruit juice and moreish digestives
Latest Features
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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 2013
When 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 2013Jill, 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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A pop queen descends on the Vatican
Thursday, 18 April 2013
Gloria Estefan to speak at TEDx event in Rome
More Features
Even Muslims flourished in Crusader states
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Historian Michael Haag says that, contrary to the common image, Frankish rule in the Middle East was benevolent
‘All our detractors can do is call us names’
Monday, 28 January 2013
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone tells Mary O’Regan we can achieve ‘spiritual greatness’ in the fight for marriage
England’s forgotten king
Thursday, 24 January 2013
The 10th-century king who unified England has been left on history’s scrapheap, argues Ed West
‘The façade has to come down eventually’
Monday, 21 January 2013
Author Wm Paul Young tells Will Gore that his international bestseller The Shack was born out of a wrenching personal crisis
This Pentecost remember the Pope in your prayers and Malta’s entry in the Eurovision Song Contest
By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith