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January 06, 2023

What Pope Benedict can teach us about New Year resolutions

January 06, 2023

It was something of a relief when my colleague on the Catholic Herald emailed me to tell me that I didn’t need to write about my New Year resolutions after all. The project was not going to run. I was very grateful. I hadn’t been able to work out how much pretence and deceit this

Eyes on the East: Keeping Christmas with the Ukrainian Catholic Church

January 06, 2023

The liturgical and spiritual patrimony of the historic Church of Kyiv, to which the Ukrainian and Russian Churches – both Catholic and Orthodox – are today’s heirs, embraces English speakers as well as the Ukrainian diaspora and others. And so for a decade I have lived richly as a priest with bi-ritual faculties, keeping two Holy Weeks, two Easters and two Christmases.

The Epiphany: Rise and shine

January 06, 2023

English-speakers call it “The Epiphany”, but the Germans say Heilige Drei Könige: the Three Holy Kings. And yet St Matthew doesn’t tell us that they were kings or even that there were three of them. “Kings” comes from the prophecy of Isaiah 60:3, read on the feast: “Nations shall come to your light and kings