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A foe of eugenics: The Catholic author who was sued for libel by Marie Stopes
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Halliday Sutherland was a brilliant travel writer - and so much more
Graveyard visits, Remembrance Day and St Andrew: November traditions
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The month of November has always been a magical time for me – as it is for many other people
The EU founding father who longed for Europe to return to the Faith
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Sanctity is probably not something we would immediately associate with anyone connected with the European Union. But just as the Founding Fathers might not...
The baron who transformed workers’ rights in Austria – and beyond
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Karl Baron von Vogelsang was born in 1818 in Liegnitz, Prussian Silesia, to a Pomeranian noble family. Studying law and political science in Bonn,...
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St Francis and the Franciscans are constantly portrayed as hippie-esque children of nature. The Holy Man of Assisi and his disciples are known in...
The movies ignore it, but Robin Hood was a very Catholic hero
August 6, 2020
In the collective imagination of the Anglosphere, Robin Hood is second only to King Arthur in the hold he has on the public mind....
Blessed Hildegard Burjan: A mother and MP who helped the poor
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The first half of the 20th century produced incredible amounts of bloodshed, warfare and social unrest: of the hapless nations visited by these plagues,...
Catholic Action: The president who transformed Ecuador
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From Mexico to Argentina, the countries of Hispanic America (Portuguese-speaking Brazil had a different experience) followed similar patterns after independence. In almost every case,...
Never mind the hippies. Glastonbury has a rich Catholic history
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Glastonbury! What a wealth of – mostly strange – associations that name conjures up! The little town in the West of England has a...
Catholic Action: The bishop who directed a siege defence
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One of the most dramatic episodes in history, the siege of the foreign legations in Beijing during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, gave birth...
Heretic of the week: John Wilson
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John Wilson (1799-1870) was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, and took to studying innumerable histories at the library of Trinity College Dublin. Basing his studies...
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