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Why the Church has some good news for Guardian readers
May 18, 2016
Natural Fertility Awareness eschews subsidising 'Big Pharma' and encourages the consumption of organic vegetables
Amoris Laetitia: An ode to Humanae Vitae
April 14, 2016
Buried deep in the middle of Amoris Laetitia is one of those little barbed asides for which Pope Francis is famous. He throws out the comment that “some Christian families, whether because of the language they use, the way they act or treat others, or their constant harping on the same two or three issues,
Amoris Laetitia is ‘kitchen sink theology’ and all the better for it
April 08, 2016
Francis's exhortation doesn't shy away from the often harsh realities of marriage and family life
Stop the doom and gloom: the statistics show that converts stay Catholic
April 01, 2016
Bogus statistics 'show' that most converts drift away. Solid research from the US suggests the opposite
Meet the cowboy, samurai and surfer saints
March 15, 2016
From Mother Teresa to Blessed Jose Brochero, the sheer diversity of the saints should inspire us to follow their example
Denying someone Communion can be an act of mercy. Just ask the Church Fathers
March 14, 2016
The denial of Communion is a supremely grave matter which raises a host of tricky questions
What Marx got wrong about religion
March 03, 2016
Due to circumstances beyond my control (and, as swiftly transpired, my doctor’s), I’ve spent the past week filling myself with opiates. Not, I grant you, a situation devoutly to be wished. But equally, not one without its recompenses either. For the intrepid scholar of atheism, you see, systematically dulling one’s senses with codeine offers opportunities for
Why the Year of Mercy might fail
February 04, 2016
Even practising Catholics have lost a sense of sin
Why the Year of Mercy might fail
February 04, 2016
Truth be told, I sometimes feel a bit sorry for sin. All this fuss about mercy, what with its Year and Doors and oddly Zaphod Beeblebrox-like logo. But what about the thing that makes it all possible? In fact, the same goes for the entirety of the Christian message: repentance, forgiveness, reconciliation, redemption, salvation. None
St Thomas Aquinas invented the greatest intellectual gag of all time
January 28, 2016
But the Angelic Doctor also made a serious point about the danger of using analogies to speak of God
The greatest story that never happened
December 17, 2015
Sir Thomas Massey was a zealously anti-Catholic MP of the 19th century. One morning in the Commons he proposed that, as the English had long since ridded their churches of the popish Mass, it was high time that their language followed suit: “Christ-mas” should thus duly be Protestantised to “Christ-tide”. The Prime Minister, Disraeli, rose
Remembering the time when a pope ‘ruined Christmas’
December 01, 2015
The way Vatican news is reported in the mainstream media has changed drastically since the arrival of Francis
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