England’s growing Orwellian nightmare
by Liam Gibson According to the old joke, in Heaven the cooks are Italian, the mechanics German and the police…
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Martin Heidegger & Saint Edith Stein : two contrasting lives
by Roberto de Mattei At the beginning of the twentieth century, a new philosophical school in Europe stepped forward to…
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Sermon 82 by St Augustine of Hippo 1 All who hear about them and believe are moved by the miracles…
READ MORE“Hold on to your Kids”: children and social media
BY Joseph Shaw
I don’t like referring to children as “kids”, but this is the title of a book some readers may find…
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BY Virginia Coda Nunziante
Extracts from the introduction to Christian Fashion in the History of the Church.Moral tracts and manuals of the Church’s social…
READ MOREThe two kingdoms: on the fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
BY Fr Gabriel of St Mary Magdalene OCD
PreludeGive strength to my weakness, O Lord, so that I may come to possess Your kingdom.1We find the central thought…
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BY Judie Brown
So-called “pro-life posturing” that admits to allowing aborting an innocent preborn child until the fifteenth week of life is nothing…
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BY Thomas McKenna
Originally published by Catholic Action for Faith and Family on Sunday 28 July 2024.By now you have undoubtedly heard of…
READ MORELifting our eyes to heaven: sermon on the eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
BY a Dominican Friar
“And looking up to heaven, he groaned.”Why does our Lord look up to heaven when He begins to heal this…
READ MOREThe conditions of peace
BY Alan Fimister
“[W]hat king, about to go to make war against another king, doth not first sit down and think whether he…
READ MORESaint Elias and the noctilucent clouds of July
BY Roberto de Mattei
In the last weeks of July, during the hours of twilight, there appeared in the sky a rare atmospheric phenomenon…
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BY Fr Gabriel of St Mary Magdalene OCD
From Divine IntimacyPreludeGive me, O Lord, humility with love; let humility guard charity in me, and may charity increase according…
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