A lesson in a parking lot
December 6, 2018
Our natural instincts serve us well, up to a point. They’re self-protective and that’s healthy too, up to a point. Let me explain. Recently...
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December 6, 2018
Cryptic across 7 Extract of reporter’s acclaimed banter is re-used, giving one the hump, twice! (8,5) 8 Scandinavian monarch, the sixth to lead (6)...
? Heretic of the week
December 6, 2018
Pelagius (360-418) was a British monk of Celto-Roman origin. Fluent in Greek and Latin, and well-schooled in theology, he combined his great learning with...
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December 6, 2018
Ordinary Form Divine Office Week II Sunday, December 9: The Second Sunday of Advent Bar 5:1-9; Ps 126; Phil 1:4-6, 8-11; Lk 3:1-6 Monday,...
How to … Observe Advent
December 6, 2018
Advent can seem to be defined by what it isn’t: a time of waiting while everyone else has started the party. We don’t even...
We like the idea of salvation, until it requires serious engagement
December 6, 2018
On the eve of Advent Sunday I attended Handel’s Messiah performed by the brilliant Schola Cantorum of London’s Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School. A professional...
Omnium Gatherum
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This week we celebrate Our Blessed Mother’s Immaculate Conception and the feast of St Lucy, virgin and martyr. Lucy, from the Latin word lux,...
The Word this week
December 6, 2018
The Second Sunday of Advent Bar 5:1-9; Phil 1:3-6 & 8-11; Lk 3:1-6 (Year C) Israel’s long history was inextricably intertwined with the desert...
Henry VI: The well-meaning ruler whose world fell to pieces
December 6, 2018
Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou By Amy License, Pen and Sword Books, 256pp, £19.99/$35 During my days as an undergraduate, a professor of...
How English choirs recovered from the Reformation – eventually
December 6, 2018
I Saw Eternity the Other Night By Timothy Day, Allen Lane, 416pp, £25/$30 In a few weeks’ time, on Christmas Eve, the famous Festival...
Casting off ‘rules and rigidity’ won’t save the Irish Church
December 6, 2018
5 Years to Save the Irish Church Talks from the National Columba Book Conference, Columba Books, 94pp, £7.99/$10 Let’s cut to the chase. What...
Week in review
December 6, 2018
The big story of the past seven days ✣ Pope addresses homosexuality among priests What happened? Pope Francis said the issue of homosexuality among...
A lesson in a parking lot
December 6, 2018
Our natural instincts serve us well, up to a point. They’re self-protective and that’s healthy too, up to a point. Let me explain. Recently...
Prize crossword 0571
December 6, 2018
Cryptic across 7 Extract of reporter’s acclaimed banter is re-used, giving one the hump, twice! (8,5) 8 Scandinavian monarch, the sixth to lead (6)...
? Heretic of the week
December 6, 2018
Pelagius (360-418) was a British monk of Celto-Roman origin. Fluent in Greek and Latin, and well-schooled in theology, he combined his great learning with...
Mass readings
December 6, 2018
Ordinary Form Divine Office Week II Sunday, December 9: The Second Sunday of Advent Bar 5:1-9; Ps 126; Phil 1:4-6, 8-11; Lk 3:1-6 Monday,...
How to … Observe Advent
December 6, 2018
Advent can seem to be defined by what it isn’t: a time of waiting while everyone else has started the party. We don’t even...
We like the idea of salvation, until it requires serious engagement
December 6, 2018
On the eve of Advent Sunday I attended Handel’s Messiah performed by the brilliant Schola Cantorum of London’s Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School. A professional...
Omnium Gatherum
December 6, 2018
This week we celebrate Our Blessed Mother’s Immaculate Conception and the feast of St Lucy, virgin and martyr. Lucy, from the Latin word lux,...
The Word this week
December 6, 2018
The Second Sunday of Advent Bar 5:1-9; Phil 1:3-6 & 8-11; Lk 3:1-6 (Year C) Israel’s long history was inextricably intertwined with the desert...
Henry VI: The well-meaning ruler whose world fell to pieces
December 6, 2018
Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou By Amy License, Pen and Sword Books, 256pp, £19.99/$35 During my days as an undergraduate, a professor of...
How English choirs recovered from the Reformation – eventually
December 6, 2018
I Saw Eternity the Other Night By Timothy Day, Allen Lane, 416pp, £25/$30 In a few weeks’ time, on Christmas Eve, the famous Festival...
Casting off ‘rules and rigidity’ won’t save the Irish Church
December 6, 2018
5 Years to Save the Irish Church Talks from the National Columba Book Conference, Columba Books, 94pp, £7.99/$10 Let’s cut to the chase. What...
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December 6, 2018
The big story of the past seven days ✣ Pope addresses homosexuality among priests What happened? Pope Francis said the issue of homosexuality among...
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