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Of course popes make mistakes. But the papacy isn’t an optional extra
September 4, 2020
This year being what it is, for my short summer break I decided to leave my parish in Nottingham to spend a few days...
As I gave last rites in a coronavirus ward, I felt a great debt to NHS staff
April 17, 2020
Like everyone else in the country, I had already been feeling grateful for the work of NHS staff – but never so much as...
Fr David Palmer: My life as a Hindu monk
May 24, 2018
Hinduism is vast, beautiful, terrifying and confusing. Of the world’s great religions, it is the one that we in the West probably know least...
Sorry, Mark Zuckerberg, but Facebook can never be a substitute for the Church
June 28, 2017
Christianity is an incarnational religion. Social media is the opposite
The abuse crisis made Catholicism confront its dark side. Terrorism should do the same for Islam
June 8, 2017
We do a better service to Muslims by forcing them to confront the dark side of their community
The dilemma of giving up Facebook
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For years I have been something of a social media junkie, regularly checking my phone for updates on Facebook and Twitter (I’m too old for...
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