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Morning Catholic must-reads: 19/03/12

It is only by “confessing our sins to God that we find true peace and true joy”, Pope Benedict said at the Angelus yesterday (video). The Pope also appealed for prayers for his six-day trip to Mexico...

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Morning Catholic must-reads: 26/03/12

Benedict XVI has said that he has “never been welcomed with such enthusiasm” on a foreign trip as he prepares to leave Mexico after a four-day visit to the country (full texts, videos). The Vietnamese...

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Today’s Catholic must-reads: 28/03/12

Benedict XVI will shortly celebrate Mass for an expected million people in the Plaza de la Revolución in Havana (live blog, live video). Cardinal Keith O’Brien and Archbishop Vincent Nichols are to...

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I rarely agree with Nick Clegg but he is right about stay-at-home mums

Those who follow my blog will know that I am a stout champion of a mother’s right to raise her children at home, especially when they are very young, without constant government propaganda telling her...

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Faith lives and dies within families; when families fall apart or fall away,...

LifeSiteNews of 23 August publishes a thought-provoking article by Julia Shaw on a new book by American author, Mary Eberstadt. The book is entitled How the West Really Lost God – a challenging enough...

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Morning Catholic must-reads: 01/10/13

Pope Francis has given a 4,500-word interview to the atheist co-founder of La Repubblica in which he describes the Vatican’s courtly atmosphere as “the leprosy of the papacy” (full text). The Council...

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The Church may appear to be on the wrong side of history but it is on the...

Young people who go on to higher education today, if they are not put off at the start by the enormous loans they will have to pay off, are generally thinking of worldly success. Whether in academic...

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A message for the Synod – lose the family and Europe loses the faith too

I have been reading Mary Eberstadt’s How the West really lost God (Templeton Press). Published in 2013 and sub-titled “A New Theory of Secularization”, the author, a heavyweight American academic,...

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Saving Christian marriage is more pressing than the issue of Communion for...

My Monday blog, bringing readers’ attention to Mary Eberstadt’s book, “How the West really lost God”, ended on a note of pessimism. Eberstadt argues that the transmission of faith is linked to...

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Letters from the Synod: October 23

NEWS …from and about Synod 2015 The general assembly of the Synod of Bishops heard the draft of a final report on Synod-2015 on the afternoon of October 22. The general assembly will hear interventions...

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Letters from the Synod: October 27

This will be the last in this series of Letters from the Synod, and the final words must be expressions of thanks to all who helped make this exercise in “theological journalism,” as we described it in...

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