Faith
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While Islamic cultures draw on the Koran, Hindu cultures look to the Bhagavad Gita. and Chinese pay homage to Confucius, it is Judaeo-Christianity, especially the New Testament, that provides the West’s moral and spiritual compass. Foes of religious belief playing any part in politics can ignore that influence but they cannot deny it
July 31, 2024
6 mins
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The Second Vatican Council recommended mild reform to the eucharistic rite but radical liturgists, who managed as leftists always do to install themselves as the arbiters of change, went much further. The Tridentine Mass survived their worst efforts and has lately thrived, but what does Pope Francis have in mind?
July 11, 2021
10 mins
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Careful attention to how Jesus uses scripture and draws from it principles that imply radical conclusions gives insight into the nature of his intensive earlier study. It is a complex and difficult task. Certainly, the program of reconstructing Jesus’ PhD from his later seminars and Q&A sessions is only in its infancy. Much further research is needed.
April 4, 2021
12 mins
The latest
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It is not clear what is achieved by the destructive application of academic firepower to the central tenets of a major world religion but the sheer volume of papers and books suggest scholars of high and no distinction find the lure impossible to resist. Here, a guide to several centuries' worth of fancies, fantasies, fictions and, yes, the odd fact
October 7, 2020
26 mins
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Russian's royal family, the passengers of Malaysian Airlines Flt 17 and the Carmelite martyrs of revolutionary France singing as they went to the guillotine -- all their fates were all sealed on the same day in July. As 2020's pandemic claims its blameless victims, the sisters' courage, kindness and luminous spirituality is both inspiration and example
July 28, 2020
7 mins
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Those disinclined to credit Divine intervention in the affairs of men will scoff at the story of St Menas' appearance to Greek troops before the victory that marked, as Churchill put it, 'the end of the beginning'. Easy to dismiss, but not by Montgomery, who swore the saint also paid him a call
November 24, 2019
11 mins