Mark Jenkins, Author at Catholic Herald

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Philokalia: Volume 5, reviewed by Mark Jenkins

March 03, 2023

Philokalia: Volume 5 Ed. Kallistos Ware Faber & Faber, £30, 324 pages The much-anticipated fifth volume of an English translation of the Philokalia (more fully known as “The Philokalia of the Neptic Saints gathered from our Holy Theophanic Father through which, by means of the Philosophy of Ascetic Practice and Contemplation, the Intellect is Purified,

Why we need monks back in the classroom

February 01, 2023

St Benedict, contemplation and the search for knowledge should be the bedrock of a 21st-century Catholic education, says Mark Jenkins

The West must mobilise to help Armenian Christians blockaded in Azerbaijan

January 19, 2023

Pope Francis has expressed concern about the potential for a humanitarian catastrophe in the Caucasus. Some 120,000 Armenian Christians, resident in the landlocked Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, sometimes referred to as the Republic of Artsakh, are currently enduring an economic blockade. The blockade of Artsakh has been imposed by Azerbaijan, and means a shortage of

Quarr Abbey monk on the meaning of identity

January 03, 2023

Mark Jenkins sets sail for Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight to speak to Dom Luke Bell about the meaning of identity

The King’s Christmas message struck the perfect note for our multi-faith society

December 27, 2022

Gavin Ashenden’s recent post in respect of the King’s Christmas Message 2022 asks whether the King has sowed the destruction of the House of Windsor. Later in the post, Dr Ashenden states that the King is making a shift from being a Protestant Christian monarch to 21st-century relativism, that this represents an abandonment of his

A Queen de jure

September 20, 2022

Sixty nine years after Her Late Majesty came to Westminster Abbey to be anointed, crowned and enthroned her mortal remains were taken to the Abbey for her funeral service. Her recent physical death, however, is of little importance compared to the death that she underwent at her coronation in 1953. For the death she underwent

Charles III – an oecumenical king

September 10, 2022

Our new King concluded his address to the nation with words from Hamlet: “May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest,” an obvious reference to the great spiritual journey his mother has now begun back to her Creator. Shakespeare’s historical plays are a study in the meaning of kingship. They lay bare in the

Russian nuclear orthodoxy

April 26, 2022

For Patriarch Kirill nuclear weapons are necessary for salvation, explains Mark Jenkins Sergei Shoigu, the Russian defence minister, is a practising Russian Orthodox believer who often accompanies President Putin on visits to Orthodox monasteries in remote areas across the Russian Federation. At the entrance to Moscow’s Red Square the small Iveron Chapel is said to

Putin, Kirill and the Vatican

March 30, 2022

The shared vision of Russia’s church and state

Vladimir Putin, Kyrill and the Vatican

March 10, 2022

VLADIMIR PUTIN, KYRILL AND THE VATICAN There are many who see in Patriarch Kyrill’s reluctance to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, evidence of Caesaropapism. Certainly, it is likely that Patriarch Kyrill sees Putin’s “special military operation” as regrettable, but necessary in order to restore the divinely ordained unity of the Russian people – a

Expanding the Orthodox empire

March 01, 2022

Vladimir Putin’s designs on Ukraine are rooted in Russia’s ancient imperial ambitions for a Eurasian state

Putin’s take on the “Russian Idea”

February 06, 2022

A reading list that Putin gave to his regional governors in 2014 could shed some light on his vision for Russia

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