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Wisdom is a gift from God
July 24, 2020
Seventeenth Sunday of the Year 1 Kings 3: 5 & 7-12; Romans 8: 28-30; Matthew 13: 44-52 The Collect for the seventeenth Sunday of...
Edel Quinn’s life shows that real success often comes from failure
July 24, 2020
Edel Quinn’s life is a reminder that fruitfulness and authentic success often emerge from failure, from giving up one’s hopes and choices to God....
In Pascendi Dominici Gregis, St Pius X defended both faith and reason
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In one of her letters, the American novelist Flannery O’Connor relates how, at a dinner party, one of the guests – an ex-Catholic –...
Blessed Hildegard Burjan: A mother and MP who helped the poor
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The first half of the 20th century produced incredible amounts of bloodshed, warfare and social unrest: of the hapless nations visited by these plagues,...
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Last year I wrote about the Collect for the Novus Ordo’s 16th Ordinary Sunday. But this time I have a little more room and,...
Our Christian lives are to be measured by an unfettered willingness to forgive
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At the lowest point of my life, a novena changed everything
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‘I left university feeling I was searching for something – I didn’t even know what – so I went travelling. At the time, during...
What I’ve learnt from celebrating Mass alone during lockdown
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I suspect that the clergy had a fundamentally different experience of the Covid lockdown from the laity. We may speak airily of how “our...
Timelessness and strange traditions: What I love about cricket
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Fishing was what I missed most in lockdown. It’s good to be back
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With a plop, my bait is swallowed by the murk. This is what I have been missing. This is what no amount of peering...
Aristotle was the father of virtue ethics, but Aquinas transfigured the field
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The virtues, which are dispositions to do what is good, have recently enjoyed a remarkable revival as a topic of academic interest, if not...
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