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February 12, 2024

Pope St Leo the Great on keeping a Holy Lent

February 12, 2024

A reflection from Pope St Leo the Great – Sermon 46: The right practise of abstinence is needful not only to the mortification of the flesh but also to the purification of the mind; we desire your observance to be so complete that, as you cut down the pleasures that belong to the lusts of

European farmers’ protest denied entry to Vatican—along with star cow

February 12, 2024

ROME – As part of continent-wide protests against low food prices and rising costs, a small delegation of farmers on Sunday led a cow that has become a symbol of the uprising toward St. Peter’s Square for the Pope’s traditional noontime Angelus address. They were turned away before being able to enter. Convoys of farmers

The Psalms and Kit: The promise of peace of mind

February 12, 2024

Sarah Sands on her brother, Kit, and the Psalms. The Book of Psalms has already been singled out by the Revd Jonathan Aitken for this publication (December 2023) and particularly the penitential De Profundis: “Out of the depths have I called to you, O Lord! Lord, hear my voice.” For Aitken, once a prisoner, now

Argentina gets first female saint as Pope meets country’s brash populist leader

February 12, 2024

ROME – Pope Francis and Argentine President Javier Milei, a populist politician and a blunt contrarian who has made derogatory remarks about the pontiff, had a warm encounter as Argentina’s first female saint was canonised at Mass on Sunday in the Vatican. A former television pundit, Milei was elected president of Argentina in November. He

The Glaswegian nuns who called the feminists’ bluff on abortion

February 12, 2024

One hundred and sixty. It’s a number etched on Sister Roseann Reddy’s heart. That is the number of babies saved from abortion since the Sisters of the Gospel of Life were formed on 1 January 2000. The Sisters of the Gospel of Life are based on the south side of Glasgow in Scotland. It is