On the eve of Remembrance Day Stephen Cooper traces the life of an Ampleforth boy who fell in a hail of fire in the First World War
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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
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‘It all came together in the Himalayas’
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
Archbishop Charles Brown, the Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland, tells Mary O’Regan his faith truly came alive when trekking in Tibet
My banned list of 10 Church buzzwords
Thursday, 20 September 2012
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