Spiritual Life
Saint of the Week
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St Omer, September 9, patron of the blind
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
A town named after St Omer, in the Pas-de-Calais, played a crucial role in educating English Catholics
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The Lancashire priest executed for his zeal
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
St Edmund Arrowsmith (August 28) was hanged, drawn and quartered and his head set upon a pike
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The English martyr hanged at the age of 80
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
St John Kemble (August 22), a much-loved Catholic priest whose execution was horribly botched
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The king who stamped out paganism in Hungary
Thursday, August 12th, 2010St Stephen of Hungary (August 16) was humble, and worked for the poor – yet did not always turn the other cheek
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St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (August 9)
Friday, August 6th, 2010
Edith Stein, Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, was killed in Auschwitz
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The Benedictine monk who unified Britain’s monasteries
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Aethelwold (c 904-984) was a great scholar and a ruthless propagator of monasticism in Britain
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The apostle whom Jesus called ‘a son of thunder’
Friday, July 23rd, 2010
St James the Great (July 25) was beheaded on the orders of Herod Agrippa at about 44 AD
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The martyr whom King Charles II did nothing to help
Friday, July 16th, 2010
St John Plessington (July 19), a Catholic priest, was hanged, drawn and quartered in 1679
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St Camillus (July 14)
Friday, July 9th, 2010
Camillus de Lellis founded the Order of the Ministers of the Sick, an organisation which still flourishes around the world
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St Priscilla – July 8
Friday, July 2nd, 2010Priscilla has become something of a feminist theological icon, on the rather slender grounds afforded in Acts 18 and St Paul’s Epistles
Comment & Blogs
Morning Catholic must-reads: 07/09/10
By Luke Coppen
‘Why is the Church so hard-hearted as to refuse Holy Communion to remarried divorcees?’
By William Oddie
Peter Mandelson is not wise, old, or grumpy enough to be a national treasure
By Francis Phillips
Morning Catholic must-reads: 06/09/10
By Luke Coppen
If Britain is the geopolitical epicentre of the culture of death, where do we put North Korea and China?
By Stuart Reid
Edmund Adamus said our society was hedonistic, anti-life and anti-family – all true. So why was he slapped down?
By William Oddie
Morning Catholic must-reads: 03/09/10
By Luke Coppen
Debate: Is Britain a moral wasteland?
By The Catholic Herald