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October 14, 2023

On Pilgrimage With: Fra’ Max Rumney, Grand Prior of England, Order of Malta

October 14, 2023

Where would you go? Easy: the Order of Malta has its annual pilgrimage to Walsingham this month. For me, a pilgrimage involves Our Lady, and taking others who need assistance to make their pilgrimage. The charism of the Order is “defence of the Faith and care of the sick”. By following the teaching of Christ

Synod on Synodality urged to condemn Hamas attacks in name of ‘moral clarity’

October 14, 2023

ROME – An official of the oldest Jewish advocacy organization in the United States has called upon the ongoing Synod on Synodality in the Vatican to issue an explicit condemnation of terrorist attacks by Hamas on Israel, suggesting it’s a needed gesture of “moral clarity.” “To this point, the synod gathered in the Vatican has

What we can learn from Aaron Rosen’s What Would Jesus See

October 14, 2023

Seeing as Jesus sees. For those of a certain age, it would be easy to misread the title of Aaron Rosen’s new book as “What Would Jesus Do?” In fact, Rosen, a Cambridge PhD in Theology who has taught at Oxford and Yale, predicted the mistake. “Growing up in rural America in the nineties,” he

The problem (and danger) of knowing absolutely everything

October 14, 2023

The esoteric fifteenth century philosopher Pico dell Miranda, was so confident as a polymath that he wrote a treatise called De omni re scibile: “Concerning every known thing”. Fast forward and Pascal, who as inventor of a prototype for the modern computer was not lacking little grey cells, satirized this, and then Voltaire applied his

‘Confused and confusing’: Cardinal Zen talks to the Herald about his ongoing Synod concerns

October 14, 2023

ROME – Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, the former bishop of Hong Kong, has become seen in recent years as something of a Confessor — one who has suffered but not (yet) died for the Faith. He has had well-documented difficulties with China’s Communist authorities, which have seen him in recent years charged under new security

Out of the Shadows: walking through the night with St John Henry Newman

October 14, 2023

OXFORD – “When we know how many good souls would gladly be Catholics if they could,” the wispy white haired Oratorian priest spoke softly into the microphone, “if we are able to put before them one suggestion or another which may not at the moment convince them, which they may think weak even, but which