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July 18, 2023

US President meets a papal envoy pleading for peace, and a cruel case of déjà vu

July 18, 2023

ROME – Though all analogies are inexact, it’s nevertheless tempting to say that with regard to Cardinal Matteo Zuppi’s meeting today with US President Joe Biden regarding a war, we’ve been down this road before. The question is whether this journey will end the same way, or whether another outcome is possible. Twenty years ago,

How devotion to the Mother of God helps us to better know God as ‘Our Father’

July 18, 2023

Carol Kellas, writing from Croydon to the Times’ Letters page recently commented on the exciting idea pitched by the Anglican Archbishop of York that the Church should re-think calling God our “Father”. The Most Rev. Stephen Cottrell wanted to represent those people who had had poor fathers. For them the association might be toxic. “Sir

The tempered joy of Elizabeth Jennings

July 18, 2023

The Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti claimed that “extreme turbulence” was best expressed with “extreme precision”. What time of human life appears more turbulent than that of adolescence? Perhaps much modern strife can be explained by the deliberate colonisation of adulthood by adolescence. We know little about the teenage years of Elizabeth Jennings, the most notable