Friendship with God was inconceivable until Christ’s birth
December 19, 2019
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It is often said that you cannot turn the clock back. In a sense, however, the Church does just that
What’s more astonishing than the Big Bang? Ask the man who proposed it
April 18, 2019
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On Easter Sunday, we contemplate with wonder the empty tomb, and the circumstances of the Resurrection transport us all the
The best way to welcome Jesus this Christmas: a good Holy Communion
December 20, 2018
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A 4th-century Egyptian observed that “the Son of God became man so that we might become God”. Such words might
Why, despite everything happening in the world, we can rejoice this Easter
April 1, 2018
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The Resurrection means that evil has a very definite sell-by date
The end of defeatism
March 29, 2018
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Inasmuch as it is an excessive exultation of human achievements and capabilities, triumphalism can only ever be an impediment to
Just say yes
December 21, 2017
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Exactly nine months before Christmas Day we celebrated the visit of an angel to a virgin in Nazareth. That young
What death cannot hold
April 13, 2017
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Whenever we say the Creed, we profess our belief in two resurrections. First we affirm our conviction that “on the
Let Christ be born anew
December 22, 2016
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On Christmas Day we celebrate the moment when God came to us in human flesh. The mystery and event of
Fr Wilfrid Faber: the author who John XXIII read before bedtime
September 26, 2013
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The unfairly maligned founder of the London Oratory died 150 years ago