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One Day A Week Priests!

My friend is seventy and knows he is slowing down. He has asked his bishop’s permission for two days off each week instead of one. Should he tell his people or just carry on as well as he can and hope the people won’t notice? The cynics will sneer, a priest works only one day…

13/03/2016
Asylum Seekers

Mother’s Day is a time to think about Mothers and to give thanks for the care and love they give us. It is also a time for families to come together and to celebrate the support they offer each other. Imagine being torn away from your family, through war or conflict. Imagine having to flee to a…

07/03/2016
World War II And The Catholic Church

They had all been Catholics (don’t say “once a Catholic, always a Catholic” – it isn’t true). That is part of the horror of the collective memory of the Catholic Church in Germany: that “the Final Solution (extermination of the Jews)” and the conquest of Europe and, perhaps, eventually, the whole world, was directed by…

28/02/2016
Pope Francis, This Week by the Press

Our dear Pope Francis has surprised us again – three times this week. What did you think of his meeting Patriarch Kirill of Moscow at Havana Airport? What an amusing background there must be to that meeting. We can hardly imagine the Patriarch feeling like a day trip to Cuba. He must have been persuaded…

21/02/2016
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