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Mary Kenny

Does hugging a tree count?
December 22, 2015
Some commentators suggest that the new Calvinism for 2016 and beyond will be belief about, and commitment to, the tenets of climate change. Whoever believes in climate change may be saved. Whoever denies climate change will be cast into outer darkness. Those of us who are vaguely accepting, but still inclined to take extreme predictions
Baptists offer Muslims a safe haven in Lebanon
December 17, 2015
Zahlé, eastern Lebanon Lebanon has a long Christian tradition. That is why many of the Christian refugees from neighbouring countries – notably Syria and Iraq – have a better chance of finding shelter and asylum there than they might do elsewhere. Thus, I was told during my recent visit to Lebanon, many Christian refugees are
What holds Lebanon together
December 10, 2015
When the vote on bombing Syria was going through the House of Commons last week, I thought about all the people I had met in Lebanon, where I had just spent five days. I met some inspiring individuals there – Lebanese, Syrian, British, American and others – but the one thing they had in common
Something rotten at the heart of Belgium
November 25, 2015
BELGIUM is a country that should be dear to all of us, historically. The “rape of Belgium” moved many hearts to pity at the start of the First World War, and many Belgian refugees were accommodated in Britain after it was occupied by Germany. A hundred thousand places of shelter were offered to fleeing Belgian refugees
Something rotten at the heart of Belgium
November 25, 2015
BELGIUM is a country that should be dear to all of us, historically. The “rape of Belgium” moved many hearts to pity at the start of the First World War, and many Belgian refugees were accommodated in Britain after it was occupied by Germany. A hundred thousand places of shelter were offered to fleeing Belgian refugees
Mary Kenny: Jackie Collins wasn’t weird
September 24, 2015
It is a source of great fascination to me that almost every value that was commonly upheld in my youth has been overturned – and many values once deplored are now upheld. (David Frost was considered an absolute shocker for mentioning the word “contraception” in a television broadcast in the 1960s, as a new biography
Mary Kenny: Jackie Collins wasn’t weird
September 24, 2015
It is a source of great fascination to me that almost every value that was commonly upheld in my youth has been overturned – and many values once deplored are now upheld. (David Frost was considered an absolute shocker for mentioning the word “contraception” in a television broadcast in the 1960s, as a new biography
Death is not always ‘a terrible tragedy’
September 10, 2015
Death in old age is a natural process which we must all eventually face
Now we owe even more to the Italians
April 23, 2015
Esteem for Italy’s heroic and altruistic rescue of hundreds of thousands of migrants has surely grown all over Europe
St Patrick: the sinner who turned the world green
March 17, 2015
How did St Patrick’s Day become such a successful 'brand'?
Tony Benn 1925-2014: a politician shaped by Christianity
March 14, 2014
A quarter of a century ago the Labour politician described how Nonconformism shaped him
Will Ireland be won over by the Queen?
May 12, 2011
Mary Kenny says that Queen Elizabeth II’s historic trip to the Republic of Ireland next week could be her most challenging state visit
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