How Busy People Pray
“Pray always.” (1 Thessalonians 5.17)
If we are to take Saint Paul’s words seriously, we see that there must be different forms of prayer; we...
Was Bertrand Russell Happy?
Everyone wants to know what happiness is and how to get it.(*) The philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) was no exception. He first published his...
Pestilence in the Light of Faith
The time we are living in now looks like a story taken from a fiction book. The world is upside down and everything seems...
In the Glorious Light of Easter, Alleluia!
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died, and your life is hidden...
Twentieth Sunday: Prayer and Tradition
For my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples (Is. 56: 7).
In any given region or country, a common language...
Benedict Beatifying Newman
MASS WITH THE BEATIFICATION
OF VENERABLE CARDINAL JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI
Cofton Park of Rednal - Birmingham
Sunday, 19 September 2010
Dear Brothers and...
Music of the Archangels
For our musical offering this week, we thought we'd go on this day dedicated to the Archangels to a composer named after them, Archangelo...
Conservative Prudence?
I received a rather critical email in response to my last post on the Conservative capitulation, so thought I should clarify my, and hopefully...
The Bible and the Big Bang
Recently I was asked by an atheist friend to point to just one passage in Scripture for which there is a single piece of...
The Eucharist, the Very Foundation of the Church
“O Sacred Banquet, in which Christ is received, the memory of his Passion is recalled, the soul is filled with grace, and the pledge...
