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March 03, 2024
The Persecuted Church: Is Britain doing enough to help beleaguered Christians in Pakistan?
March 03, 2024
“I will die but I will not let you go in” – these were the last words of Akash Bashir, a young man who saved the lives of more than a thousand worshippers nine years ago, on the fourth Sunday of Lent. The 20-year-old volunteer security guard sacrificed himself when he blocked a suicide bomber
Worldwide papal travel is here to stay, whether Demos II likes it or not
March 03, 2024
ROME – On the evening of April 19, 2005, just hours after his election, the man who had just become Benedict XVI confided to Alberto Gasbarri, a longtime veteran of Vatican Radio and the chief organizer of papal trips, that he likely wouldn’t travel much because he didn’t feel he had the same aptitude for
The Seven Deadly Sins: A noon-day demon with a complicated past
March 03, 2024
Sloth has its origins in acedia, a Greek word little used in classical times but, when deployed, usually implying some sort of carelessness – including the virtuous variety praised by stoics as serenity. Acedia got heavier work when the Hebrew scriptures were translated into Greek in the second century BC. There, it denoted the “sorrow” or
No laughing matter: Death needs to be handled with the solemnity it deserves
March 03, 2024
A close friend of mine died a while ago. She was still quite young. We had known each other since our early twenties; she was godmother to my daughter. A Catholic by upbringing, although never devout, she gave that as her faith on her hospital admission form. So I was a little surprised when her
A whale of a time: the divine comedy of the Book of Jonah
March 03, 2024
Right at the beginning of the Book of Jonah, the reluctant prophet is instructed by God to go and preach to the pagan inhabitants of Nineveh to abandon their evil ways. But by verse 3 of Chapter 1 he is headed in the opposite direction as fast as a ship will carry him, to the
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