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October 17, 2023

Bishop Davies laments UK’s ‘cataclysmic’ flight from marriage

October 17, 2023

An English bishop has invited Catholics to propose marriage as a path to holiness to new generations in the face of a “cataclysmic” national flight from the institution. Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury told couples celebrating landmark wedding anniversaries in his diocese that the decline of marriage has become so severe that the institution was on

Feast and Fast: Several ways to cook a pheasant over game season

October 17, 2023

Cornelia van der Poll finds several ways to cook a pheasant and offers some delicious recipes. The game season starts in August with grouse and moves on to partridge in September, but it is with the arrival of pheasants in butchers’ shops in October that autumn is properly here. Traditional recipes for pheasant recommend roasting

Islam’s problem with Jews goes back millennia

October 17, 2023

The events in Israel and Gaza have presented the world with a clash of political ambitions of the most intense kind, bathed in the deeply emotive murder and rape of civilians, extending to the burning and slaughter of babies. But they have also presented the world with a clash of ethical systems. The Muslim protagonists

Does the same fate await ‘synodality’ as befell ‘new evangelisation’?

October 17, 2023

ROME – As the Synod of Bishops on Synodality continues to unfold in Rome this month, it’s increasingly reminiscent of another synod just over a decade ago: The Synod of Bishops on New Evangelisation, which took place under Pope Benedict XVI Oct. 7-28, 2012. Consider the following parallels: Those similarities are already matters of record.