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Who is the son referred to in ‘Woman, behold your son’ (John 19.26)?

March 29, 2024

Today, Good Friday, the Passion according to John will be read during the afternoon liturgy. We read those of Matthew, Mark and Luke once every three years, on Palm Sunday, but because John’s is read every year it is the most familiar. So familiar, in fact, that what is proposed here might come as something

Harnessing the concealed strength of ‘Woman’

January 30, 2024

I was wondering how to pass the time during a 14-hour drive to the south of France recently. As it turned out, a phone call to my father’s GP surgery covered a good chunk of it. The passage of French towns became punctuated with updated positions in the telephone queue. By Troyes I was caller

Our Lady and the Holy Spirit

January 01, 2023

Even Evangelicals can be visited and brought to conversion by the Mother of God, tells Gavin Ashenden

Offspring of a Virgin’s womb

December 05, 2022

Our Lady’s virginity is no later embellishment, explains John Barton

Muslims who desecrated statue ordered to memorise Quran verses about Mary

February 14, 2018

The three Lebanese men were ordered to learn verses about her virginity and about the Annunciation

England to be re-dedicated as Dowry of Mary

September 14, 2017

The rector of Walsingham Shrine made the announcement while promoting a new novena to Our Lady of Walsingham

The Nativity of Mary: a sadly neglected feast

September 08, 2017

September 8 used to be a public holiday in England

Bishops plead to Virgin Mary to free Venezuela from ‘claws of communism’

July 31, 2017

The appeal comes as Venezuela descends further into chaos and violence

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