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Feast of Our Lady of Pompeii and anniversary of foundational stone laid at famous shrine
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March 25, 2024
The fiery death of self-immolation: a martyr’s moral clarity or misguided calumny?
March 25, 2024
As we enter Holy Week and commemorate the exemplary martyrdom, it seems that martyrdom in general – or a misplaced understanding of it – is reasserting itself.  Last month, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old US airman, doused himself with liquid and set himself on fire outside Israel’s embassy in Washington, DC. In a livestream of the event, he
Why did Jesus refuse traditional painkiller before ‘horrific’ crucifixion?
March 25, 2024
“They offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he refused it.” (Mark 15:23) St Mark records this detail of Jesus refusing wine mixed with myrrh before his crucifixion. This drink was a rudimentary painkiller and so the fact it was offered to Jesus implies an act of mercy to one about to undergo horrific pain.
Cancelled new bishop for Plymouth resumes parish ministry
March 25, 2024
Canon Christopher Whitehead is resuming his parish ministry following the sudden cancellation of his ordination as the new Plymouth bishop two months ago, which included his role as a parish priest being put on pause during a subsequent investigation. In an unprecedented move at the start of the year, the bishops of England and Wales cancelled the
Cardinal Bo laments ‘wounded world’ and a Holy Week scarred by ‘devastating toll of conflict’
March 25, 2024
Cardinal Charles Bo has said that this year Christians mark Holy Week reflecting on the “devastating toll of conflict even in the birthplace of Jesus, Ukraine, and our own soil”. The Myanmar cardinal, and president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Myanmar and of the Federations of Asia Bishops Conferences, said in a statement: “As
‘The Donkey’ by GK Chesterton: ‘Fools! For I also had my hour’
March 25, 2024
When fishes flew and forests walked    And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood    Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry    And ears like errant wings, The devil’s walking parody    On all four-footed things. The tattered outlaw of the earth,    Of ancient crooked will; Starve, scourge, deride
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