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August 09, 2018

Letters should include a genuine postal or email address, phone number and the style or title of the writer. Email: [email protected] Due to space constraints, please keep correspondence below 250 words, longer letters may be published online Mary Potter is worthy of Beatification SIR – I read with great interest and delight the article on

The best of the web

August 09, 2018

✣ Highlights from the week online A saint’s writings finally in print At New Liturgical Movement, Peter Kwasniewski drew attention to a major new publishing project. Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824) is, Kwasniewski wrote, one of the Church’s “most fascinating and complex mystics”. Beatified by John Paul II, Blessed Anne had an extraordinary range of

William Cash: The disturbing reality of the death penalty

August 09, 2018

Last week, when Pope Francis made his much-discussed change to the Catechism entry on the death penalty, I happened to be reading a journalist’s memoir about Death Row. The author is an Associated Press reporter, Michael Graczyk, who retires this month aged 68, after witnessing more than 400 state executions. This has made me think

Why I believe in God

August 09, 2018

Some of my favourite authors are agnostics, men and women who face life honestly and courageously without faith in a personal God. They’re stoics mostly, persons who have made peace with the idea that God may not exist and that perhaps death ends every-thing for us. I see this, for example, in the late James

Prize crossword 0554

August 09, 2018

Cryptic across 1 Bible’s drastic inclusion of a first and second book with the same name (6) 4 He prophesied the finding of mum going west to east Wales town (6) 8 Ring zero before starting to talk to someone from 17 (5) 9 Reformed monsters taking time out for moralistic discourses… (7) 10 …with