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‘The Donkey’ by GK Chesterton: ‘Fools! For I also had my hour’

March 25, 2024

When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil’s walking parody On all four-footed things. The tattered outlaw of the earth, Of ancient crooked will; Starve, scourge, deride

Pope Francis decries global ‘retreat from democracy’ in Athens speech

December 06, 2021

Pope Francis lamented a global “retreat from democracy” in a speech on Saturday in Athens, the cradle of Western civilization. The pope was speaking to political leaders, representatives of civil society, and members of the diplomatic corps at the Presidential Palace on Dec. 4, hours after arriving from Cyprus. “Here democracy was born. That cradle,

Burma’s cardinal: after decades of Calvary we are entering a season of hope

May 13, 2016

But the Church in Burma grew 'even amid the most suffocating oppressions', Cardinal Bo said

Pope Francis and Donald Trump nominated for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize

March 02, 2016

The winner of the prestigious prize will be announced in October

Is our civilisation changing as drastically as it did during the Reformation?

October 05, 2012

In 200 years a latter-day Kenneth Clark might look on our society as a singular historical period that has passed away