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Pastor Iuventus

Pastor Iuventus
October 26, 2017
The return of 1960s theology There is nothing more depressing in October than the sight of Christmas lights already strung across streets in London’s West End and shop windows full of tinsel, baubles and faux snow. Fleeing, I said to myself: I suppose it is a sign of the times. That expression is one of
Pastor Iuventus
October 19, 2017
The pro-lifers exposing intolerant liberalism  ”First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win,” so the saying goes. I am sure the Good Counsel Network is aware of this dynamic, which is ongoing in its apostolate outside the Marie Stopes clinic in Ealing, west London, where for years
Pastor Iuventus
October 12, 2017
An alien ideology enters Catholic education In his memoirs the apologist Frank Sheed wrote: “Of two contradictory views, one must be wrong. Bigotry means believing your opponents must be dishonest.” To question the current ideology that gender is different from biological sex – merely a social construct in which nothing is but thinking makes it
Pastor Iuventus
October 05, 2017
The Catholic answer to fortune cookies A vivid memory of my seminary days is being present in St Peter’s Square in October 1997 when Pope John Paul II declared Thérèse of Lisieux a Doctor of the Church. White-cloaked Carmelites carried the golden casket containing Thérèse’s relics in procession. At the end of Mass her words
Pastor Iuventus
September 28, 2017
The awakening of Frank Sheed The autumn feasts of the archangels and the guardian angels always remind me of the apologist Frank Sheed’s take on Catholic anthropology. If we are to understand man clearly, he says, we must see as the Church does: ‘‘The individual human person born into the life of nature, reborn into
Pastor Iuventus
September 21, 2017
The saint who knew when to let go  ”Only God could ask such a sacrifice.” That phrase has occupied my mind since the summer holidays. In the garden of Les Buissonnets, the house in Lisieux to which the Martin family moved following the death of Zélie, there is a statue of Louis Martin and his
Pastor Iuventus
September 14, 2017
My visit to the chapel of a flying saint September 18, 1663 marked the entry into eternal life of St Joseph of Cupertino. The remarkable earthly pilgrimage of this loveable saint is hard to characterise adequately. The fact that it resulted in him becoming the patron saint of aviators, those taking exams and the mentally
Pastor Iuventus
September 07, 2017
We must be humans before we can be saints As I was holidaying nearby, I went for my third visit of the year to the maison natale of St Thérèse of Lisieux in Alençon. Somehow this feels like an easier place to contemplate and understand the Little Flower than Lisieux itself. That may just be
Pastor Iuventus
August 31, 2017
Ending a holiday is a rehearsal for death I take up my pen after a summer break on the 21st Sunday of the Year, when the collect for Mass asks that “amid the uncertainties of this world our hearts may be fixed on that place where true gladness is to be found”. It struck a
Pastor Iuventus
July 27, 2017
These days Sweeney Todd just doesn’t cut it Another year ends at school and I am the guest at a brilliant performance of the musical Sweeney Todd. This tells the story of the demon barber of Fleet Street who slits a succession of throats, their owners winding up as the main ingredient in the meat
Pastor Iuventus
July 20, 2017
Converting England with two buns and a banana I found on a shelf a yellowing and stippled volume inherited from the library of my old friend Gerry Brine. It is a “recollection” by the founder of the Guild of Our Lady of Ransom, published in 1928. Gerry was a lifelong “Ransomer”; the guild provided devotional,
Pastor Iuventus
July 13, 2017
Does God play hide-and-seek? I had forgotten how loud the sound of a wood pigeon can be, but waking to its insistent cooing is what reminds me that I am in Walsingham. A less digital-sounding alarm I cannot imagine. It invites me to begin a couple of days’ retreat with friends and co-workers from Rachel’s
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