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Is it time to set up a suitable sanctuary for our few remaining relics?

February 01, 2023

The queues for the relics of St Bernadette last autumn were somewhat shorter than for the earthly remains of Queen Elizabeth II. The impressive turnout at Westminster Cathedral made me wonder what happened to the other potential crowd-pulling sacred body parts in this country. The last major attraction was St Thérèse, transported from Lisieux 13

Louis de Montfort, a saint whose life was the stuff of Hollywood

February 12, 2016

As a poor young priest, St Louis was helped by a mistress of the king of France

We need both medicine and Catholicism to understand mental illness

May 19, 2014

In this area, science and faith do not have to be in conflict

The saint who grew up in poverty and saw the Virgin Mary

April 16, 2013

St Bernadette (April 16) lived a humble life of deep Catholic devotion

The Lourdes visionary who expected to be boiled on a grill in Purgatory

April 16, 2012

St Bernadette (April 16) grew up in the direst extremes of poverty

Receiving the Sacraments is not a ‘right’

February 13, 2012

As a mother whose Down’s syndrome daughter made her First Communion I object to the language of rights entering Christ's Church

Medjugorje is generating what the Devil loves most: disobedience

February 11, 2011

St Bernadette lived a holy and humble life. I don't think the same can be said for the Medjugorje seers

Lourdes is evacuated after serious bomb threat

August 18, 2010

Tens of thousands of pilgrims evacuated after anonymous call

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