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Easter calls for lamb – ideally slow-roasted and served with sauce soubise

March 28, 2024

At Christmas, you may hesitate between turkey, beef, ham or goose, but at Easter it just has to be lamb. In the UK, lambs are slaughtered at six months or older, which makes them a very different animal from the small, light-coloured, milk-fed lambs of Greece and Italy. A leg can weigh between 4lb and

Italian school closes to ‘celebrate’ Ramadan, while another prevents Easter blessing

March 21, 2024

ROME – In examples which suggest the strains of a county navigating the transition from being almost entirely Catholic to a more multi-ethnic and multi-religious society, one Italian school has announced a day off to allow Muslim students to celebrate the end of Ramadan, while another has refused permission for a Catholic priest to offer

The Archbishop of Birmingham: Rejoicing with Our Lady in Eastertide

April 09, 2023

Easter fires and Paschal candles have been lit all over the world, and the shout of "Alleluia" has been sung from east to west. Now Eastertide is upon us, let us not forget the vital part played by the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God. It was from Our Lady that Christ took flesh and she stood beside Him at the foot of the Cross, eventually receiving His lifeless body into her arms.