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How priests can play a role in healing the wounds of abuse
February 20, 2020
It’s a year since the Vatican’s summit on the sexual abuse crisis and almost 10 years since Benedict XVI, following the revelations of clerical abuse in Ireland, advised: “Above all the Church must direct her efforts towards concrete measures for healing the survivors of these egregious crimes.” I am in Rome for meetings, trying to
How to know that you truly have a vocation
February 13, 2020
On the whole I am inclined to prefer the flagrant commercialism of St Valentine’s Day to that of Halloween.  There’s space for such celebration if to recall that there is magic in discovering you can be loved not just as someone’s friend, confidant or brother, but as the object of their desire because, as the
Mind, body and spirit: why integrity matters in the spiritual life
January 23, 2020
It was only recently that I realised I apparently get easier and richer insights while in the shower than when sitting at a desk or even praying. This ought not to be surprising. It makes perfect sense if one accepts that while there are different parts to the human person, they are all animated by
The Benedict-Sarah book shows how to defend priestly celibacy
January 16, 2020
Various things conspire to bring on the January blues, like the fact that I have paid several hundred pounds in motoring fines in the past month. Not, I hasten to add, because of some violation of the law, but for forgetting to pay tolls or congestion charges, or in one case because a parking permit
The gentle death of Mère Stéphanie
January 09, 2020
As usual, my monastic Christmas, celebrated with the community of St Cecilia Abbey, Ryde, in the Isle of Wight, brought me many graces, but chief among them was to assist at the death of one of the community: 93-year-old Mère Stéphanie Mathieu. On Christmas Day at the end of Mass I left the altar with
The most sentimental of Christmases can still point to the truth
January 02, 2020
Frantically last-minute Christmas shopping, I was arrested by a sign in a shop window: “Don’t forget yourself this Christmas.” It struck me as a neat expression of almost everything that is wrong with contemporary thought. For all the ghastly commercialisation of the season, the custom of giving gifts retains some crypto-realisation of the significance of
What Christmas has to do with trade deals
December 19, 2019
“O admirabile commercium: O marvellous exchange! Man’s Creator has become man, born of a Virgin. We have been made sharers in the divinity of Christ who humbled himself to share in our humanity.” Thus the antiphon for First Vespers of January 1 expresses the mystery of the Incarnation. And the “Mass” part of the Christ-Mass
Advent is a time to look forward and not backwards
December 12, 2019
Advent is when the Christian recognises that history is not “just one thing after the other”, as Henry Ford opined, but turns on an axis between two polarities – the coming of Christ once in human history, and the return of the crucified and risen Christ in glory as the fulfilment of that history and
The true Christian always remains vigilant
December 05, 2019
I have been reading the stylish and thought-provoking sermons of St John Henry Newman. They start with the Advent Scripture’s exhortation to watch, as in Jesus’s words in Mark’s Gospel: “Watch and pray, for you do not know the hour”, or St Paul’s admonition that it is high time to wake from sleep, to keep
Benedict’s 2010 reflection on the Church has only got more relevant
November 28, 2019
Excita, Domine, potentiam tuam, et veni! “Rouse up your strength, Lord, and come!” This is the cry that ushers in the season of Advent. It is the Collect for the first Sunday and it will recur frequently during these weeks. It has an urgency and force which should be the hallmark of our spiritual lives
Diary of a City Priest
November 21, 2019
Pius XI announced the establishment of the feast of Christ the King in an encyclical, Quas primas, published in December 1925. In its introduction he reflects on the significance of the year which is coming to an end. It is interesting to revisit the context to learn more about the feast which finishes our liturgical
Why children should be taught the history of the Mass
November 14, 2019
Ignorance, says Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, is like a delicate, exotic, fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. She would have recognised a similar ethos in a lot of so-called child-centred learning, and indeed in much of what has been proposed as catechesis recently. In the encounter with God’s Revelation
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