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Catholics need to rediscover proper lenten fasting
March 15, 2018
Pope Benedict XIV wrote that the observance of Lent is the 'very badge of Christian warfare'
Charles Coulombe: The fasting revolution
March 15, 2018
In his Physiology of Taste, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, that philosopher of the delicious, describes Lenten fasting during his youth in 18th-century France: “Nobody breakfasted, and therefore all were more hungry than usual. All dined as well as possible, but fish and vegetables are soon gone through with. At five o’clock all were furiously hungry, looked
A feast without a fast
February 08, 2018
Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, is marked in modern Britain by the ever-present pancakes served on that day. Last year I happened to have mine at the House of Commons canteen. These are a tiny vestige of what was once an extraordinary time of feasting, wherein all foods forbidden in Lent – including
The unorthodox nuns who taught Meghan Markle
January 18, 2018
Meghan Markle was educated by the Immaculate Heart Sisters of California - as I was. But the religion we were taught was quite different
The Catholic roots of Harry’s princess
January 18, 2018
The United States has a strange love-hate relationship with the British monarchy. Freud might have seen in it a titanic Oedipus complex spanning two-and-a-half centuries. But explain it as you will, American pundits routinely jeer at the monarchy, our Irish curse it and we annually congratulate ourselves at being freed of it. At the same
Why Americans should celebrate the Immaculate Conception as their national holiday
December 11, 2017
If Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England can celebrate their patron saints, so can the USA
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