Angelo Stagnaro visits the resting place of Blessed Bartolo Longo, the turbulent occultist who become a champion of the rosary
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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
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Yes to fake tans, no to nose jobs

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith says Catholics should think carefully before having cosmetic surgery
The suffering son who gave me so much

Mary Craig writes about her second son Paul, diagnosed with ‘gargoylism’, in an extract from The Death of a Child
‘Sometimes God works in funny ways’

Ed West talks to a Catholic who prayed the rosary 35,000 times while running across America, dodging wild animals on the way





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