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by bcadmin | Jul 24, 2021 | Cistercians, From the Archives, Malcolm Muggeridge, monastery life, Monasticism, News, Top Story | 0 |
Journalist and eccentric Christian Malcolm Muggeridge visits a monastery during lambing season and thinks of the fantastic moment when men first saw their God in the likeness of a lamb.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 17, 2021 | Elizabeth Jennings poet, From the Archives, News, poets, Top Story, Writers | 0 |
The poet Elizabeth Jennings was born on this day in 1926. A devout Catholic, she attended St Anne’s College, Oxford, where she lived all her life, before working as a librarian then in publishing before writing full-time. Her “sincere and scrupulous work” has been praised for its “unassuming technical craft”, “emotional restraint,” and “sensitivity towards
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 22, 2021 | Dorothy L Sayers, From the Archives, Leo XIII, News, Rerum Novarum, Top Story, Work | 0 |
Describing her as “a distinguished Anglican writer,” the Catholic Herald asked the mystery novelist and playwright Dorothy Sayers to contribute to a forum on the fiftieth anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum Novarum. A note at the end warned readers that the article had been taken over the telephone and might include “deviations from Miss
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 14, 2021 | From the Archives, G.K. Chesterton, GK Chesterton, Mgr Ronald Knox, News, Ronald Knox, Top Story | 0 |
To all men of good-will in my generation, the death of Chesterton appears (in various degrees) like an overshadowing of the sun. His philosophy, or some echo of it, gave colour to the things of this world, and was the earnest of better things to come. Many others, like myself, must have been so saturated
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 30, 2021 | Features, From the Archives, Good Friday, Holy Week, Holy Week 2021, News, the Cross | 0 |
The Cross is the sign of God’s love. When Jesus says, “Take up your cross and follow me,” he’s also asking us to offer our difficulties to him and pointing us to those others with whom we share the Cross.
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