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Let’s make sure the Somme anniversary has a religious resonance

June 27, 2016

July 1 marks the 100th anniversary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army

Hunger Games and World War: some things are worth fighting for

November 12, 2014

Young adults have a complex view of just war

Books blog: Is Remembrance Day the last gasp of our national religious instinct?

November 11, 2014

Although we may have not have a truly Christian Remembrance Sunday, it doesn't mean the ceremony lacks religious significance.

Francis: Global conflicts amount to ‘piecemeal’ World War III

September 15, 2014

Pope makes comments at Italy's largest war memorial

Why Catholicism’s credibility survived the Great War

July 29, 2014

The rather gloomy outlook of the Church meant that it was better equipped than most faiths to cope with the horrors of the First World War

How the Great War left my family in pieces

June 26, 2014

Mary Teresa Connor describes how the First World War took an unbearable toll on her close-knit Irish Catholic family

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