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A Muscular Christian Takes On Dawkins
Page 7 from 30th September 2011Ed West talks to Kevin Vost, the memory expert, former Olympic-level weightlifter and heavyweight defender of the Catholic faith I n a Venn diagram......
A Year With The Notting Hill Carmelites
Page 7 from 9th April 2010A t the end of the 1990s Michael Whyte put a note in the letterbox of the Carmelite monastery at Notting Hill asking if he could make a film about......
Pastor Iuventus
Page 17 from 26th August 2011A soul perfected by surrender to God O ne of the wonderful things about holidays is having the time to read, to lose yourself in a book for hours......
A Relic That Is Burning With Divine Love
Page 11 from 23rd December 2011here is a certain conversation you hear in newspaper offices at the same time every year. It usually involves one person asking another what they......
Spiritual Books Francis Phillips
Page 15 from 4th June 2010Try a Little Lowliness by Paddy Lyons, Gracewing £9.99 Paddy Lyons tried his vocation as a monk at the Cistercian Abbey on Caldey Island in the......
The French Are Superior To The English
Page 10 from 1st July 2005Mary Kenny R ound about where we live – on the south-east coast of England – the air has been thick with English triumphalism. By the seashore,......
Lastword
Page 16 from 7th October 2005On our inability to cast out demons Ronald Rolheiser T he older I get, the more I realise that there is a huge difference between speaking......
Facing Up To Our Noonday Demons
Page 14 from 21st May 2004W hen the Desert Fathers first formulated a list of what they considered “deadly sins”, they included the sin of sadness. It wasn’t until the 17th......
Fr Ronald Rolheiser The Last Word
Page 20 from 17th July 2009A truly joyous wedding L ast week I presided at a wedding ceremony. All weddings are special, but this one was particularly special. Why? The......
Catholics Should Smile Like The Saints
Page 9 from 22nd April 2011Ryan Service wonders what grim faces at Mass say about the Church that we so dearly love O that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill – A......