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January 20, 2024

Indonesia’s Ash Wednesday services have to shift for tense elections in world’s third largest democracy

January 20, 2024

MUMBAI – As the world’s largest Muslim nation heads to the polls on 14 February, which also happens to be Ash Wednesday this year, the country’s bishops are making special provisions to ensure the country’s minority Catholic population can participate in what is shaping up to be a tense election. The bishops are also calling

Is being a nurse a ‘calling’ and does that explain current problems with British nursing?

January 20, 2024

I felt called to nursing. Or you could even call it a vocation, though it preceded my conversion to Christianity and Catholicism. I fear, though, that I represent an increasing minority in British nursing today. More than 40 years ago, in the process of completing a doctorate in biochemistry at the University of Sheffield, I

On Pilgrimage With: Peter Stanford

January 20, 2024

Where would you go? I was fortunate, a few years ago, to pay a very brief visit to Lalibela. I was on a work trip as a journalist looking at Ethiopia 25 years on from the famine that made headlines around the world. The rest of the group were reluctant to make the detour to