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by Liam GibsonOn 1 February 2022, it became an offence in Northern Ireland to smoke in a car where a…
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Ash Wednesday
Meditation from Divine Intimacy, by Fr Gabriel of St Mary Magdalen OCDAt the start of Lent, we happily take on voluntary mortifications…
READ MORENo euthanasia referendum in Italy but what’s next?
Voice of the FamilyIt is certainly a relief that, on 15 February, the Italian Constitutional Court ruled that it is “inadmissible”…
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by Roberto de MatteiAt present, I am rereading a beautiful novel, Le Démon de midi by Paul Bourget, who lived between 1852…
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by Roberto de MatteiPerhaps the most necessary virtue in times of confusion is the supernatural virtue of hope, which lifts…
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by John SmeatonThere are of course conflicting signals, but it does seem possible that the political and health establishment is…
READ MOREVatican II “Draft of a Dogmatic Constitution on Chastity, Marriage, the Family and Virginity”: a schema that should have never been rejected (Part III)
by Maria MadiseThe first part of this article considered how at the beginning of the Second Vatican Council, a schema “On…
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by Cristiana de MagistrisOne of the first Oratorians, a certain companion of St Philip Neri, is known to have preferred…
READ MOREVatican II “Draft of a Dogmatic Constitution on Chastity, Marriage, the Family and Virginity”: a schema that should have never been rejected (Part II)
by Maria MadiseThe first part of this article considered how, at the beginning of the Second Vatican Council, a schema “On…
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by Joseph ShawSince 2004, with a break in 2020 for COVID, the Archdiocese of Westminster has supplied an auxiliary bishop…
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by Maria MadiseAddressing Voice of the Family’s Rome Life Forum, shortly before his death in 2017, Carlo Cardinal Caffarra, read…
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by Cristiana MagistrisThe motu proprio, Traditionis custodes, of 16 July 2021, and the Responsa ad dubia (who raised the dubia has not been disclosed), of 18…
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