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INTERVIEW: George Farmer on his Catholic Faith and being married to a US media star
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Francis Phillips

Book review: a brave, even bravura, journey
November 23, 2018
The Crossway by Guy Stagg (Picador) is a young man’s book. Written in 2013 when he was 25, it tells of his walk from Canterbury to Jerusalem in search of healing. Healing from what? It is never quite clear but, like many of his generation, well-educated but adrift in a society where there are seemingly
Only religion could have inspired the beauties of Venice
November 17, 2018
I have recently been engaged in reading back numbers of Plough Quarterly. This magazine is the inspired production of the Bruderhof movement, an international community of 23 settlements, comprising families and single people, who “seek to follow Jesus in the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount”. Following the first church in Jerusalem described in
A photo that reveals what faith is all about
November 16, 2018
In their series of biographies for young people entitled “Portraits in Faith and Freedom”, Bethlehem Books, a small publishing house in North Dakota dedicated to reviving for youthful readers out of print books of particular merit, has recently republished Padre Pro: Mexican Hero by Fanchon Royer. It will introduce this most attractive of men, beatified
How to sanctify your daily work
November 10, 2018
Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski said physical work was a true calling for Christians
The poet who saw the sacramental in everyday life
November 09, 2018
Gerard Manley Hopkins’s conversion did not lead him to write conventional religious verse
Finding faith amid the Nazi persecution
November 05, 2018
Etty Hillesum's diaries document her spiritual awakening in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands
Spiritual books: reviewed by Francis Phillips
November 01, 2018
Writing about angels might seem to be a displacement activity, given the world’s myriad problems and the Church’s own internal difficulties. But as Fr John Horgan’s highly readable and persuasive His Angels at Our Side (EWTN/Gracewing, 304pp, £15.50) shows, angels are both at the heart of the Church’s mission and perfect examples of the providence
What makes a great letter writer?
October 31, 2018
A collection of 'Letters That Changed the World' is a very mixed bag
Is dying a form of art?
October 22, 2018
A new book urges us to rediscover the art of dying well
We should rediscover our relationship with our guardian angel
October 18, 2018
Angels are real, and constantly at work in the world on our behalf at the behest of God
Senior clerics should follow the example of Cardinal Merry del Val
October 15, 2018
Pope Pius X's Secretary of State was a man of remarkable humility
Spiritual books: reviewed by Francis Phillips
October 11, 2018
In his foreword to the treasure trove of prayer, Ancient Devotions to the Sacred Heart of Jesus by Carthusian Monks of the 14th-17th Centuries (revised and enlarged by Fr Peter Mary Joseph; Gracewing, 250pp, £12.99), Cardinal Sarah points out that Carthusian prayer “is anchored in interiority, solitude and silence”. Monks in this austere order –
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