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March 05, 2023

People like us: Kim Samuel and Bishop Erik Varden on community, belonging and togetherness in a post-Covid world

March 05, 2023

I cannot now remember the number of times that I have sat in the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, wearing an academic gown of either red or black according to the occasion. This time, however, it was Kim Samuel who was in red; the Trappist Bishop Erik Varden wore a thick black scapular over a white

The miracle of Jesus’s conception

March 05, 2023

Science has attempted to explain it, but ties itself in knots. On March 25, we celebrate the Feast of the Annunciation, also known as the Feast of the Incarnation in which we commem-orate the archangel Gabriel’s visit to the Blessed Virgin Mary marking the moment she conceived her son Jesus Christ. So important is this

Fr Jeffrey Kirby: Pulling no punches

March 05, 2023

I spoke recently with Fr Jeffrey Kirby, a moral theologian and priest in South Carolina, whose book Sanctify them in Truth is a response to the prophetic words of his mentor Cardinal Ratzinger who, in 2005, spoke of a “dictatorship of relativism”. As an expert on conscience formation, the natural moral law and the effort