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December 12, 2023
Lionel Johnson: Poetry and Prose, by Robert Asch
December 12, 2023
Celebrating a lost Victorian voice. Lionel Johnson: Poetry and Prose Robert Asch Saint Austin Press, £29.99, 544 pages When Lionel Johnson was 31 and stricken with alcoholism, his friend Stopford Brooke described him as “mournful and decaying… young, but also very old”. Since his days at Winchester College, Johnson’s scores of friends had noted his
A heart in search of God: walking to deepen our faith
December 12, 2023
Phil McCarthy writes of the inspiration for his founding Pilgrim Ways, a project of walking pilgrimages in England and Wales. Over half a century ago, aged 6 or 7, sitting in the back of the family Morris Minor, I glimpsed a gaunt man striding along bearing a haversack: weather-beaten face, dishevelled white hair and beard,
Resting my weary feet on the Cammino di San Benedetto
December 12, 2023
Mary Fisher discovers the physical and mental trials of walking the Cammino di San Benedetto. “To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant” as St John Henry Newman so famously said, and I found myself up to my waist in history as I walked the Cammino di San Benedetto in Italy this
Reasons to visit Jordan
December 12, 2023
Jane Roberts explores a number of Christian pilgrimage sites in the kingdom of Jordan. Jordan is a predominantly Sunni Muslim country; however King Abdullah II is committed to defending the important Christian heritage of his country. He is quoted as saying: “Arab Christians are an integral part of my region’s past, present and future.” There
Christian minority killed and dying due to Gaza conflict 
December 12, 2023
The Israel-Hamas conflict has claimed the lives of 22 people from among the roughly 1,000 Christians living in Gaza. An airstrike killed 17 Christians sheltering in the Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyrius on 19 October, and five others have died from lack of medical care.  On 12 December an unexploded rocket was discovered on the boundaries of
Bishop opens and blesses new headquarters for Catholic Education Trust serving North England
December 12, 2023
The Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle has blessed the headquarters of one of the largest multi-academy trusts in the country. Bishop Stephen Wright performed the formal opening ceremony of the building for the Bishop Wilkinson Catholic Education Trust, which was formed four years ago to serve five secondary schools, one middle school, forty-one primary schools,
Was Irish bard Shane McGowan let down by his own funeral Mass and by his Church?
December 12, 2023
No one does death like the Irish. So the saying goes. Or so we tell ourselves. When a funeral cortege makes its way from the Church to the graveyard, people come out of their houses to stand on the side of the road to pay their respects as the hearse passes. Many people walk solemnly
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