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The best spiritual books of 2019
December 17, 2019
Around this time I am trying to decide which books I have read during the year that still reverberate in my memory in a special way. It is always hard to choose between so many fine publications, but here goes: The 21: A Journey in the Land of Coptic Martyrs by Martin Mosebach (Plough Publishing).
Dorothy Day: A saint in the making
December 17, 2019
We are all interested in lives of the saints – those extraordinary men and women who show the rest of us what it really means (and costs) to follow Christ all the way. I thought of them as I read and wrote about the newly canonised St John Henry Newman. This scholarly Englishman, whose collected
Cardinal Sarah’s profound meditation on the God of love
December 17, 2019
Having mentioned an interview between the late Sir Jonathan Miller and Norman Lebrecht in a recent blog on Advent, I am now thinking of another cultural giant who has recently died: Clive James. A friend has drawn my attention to an interview first broadcast in 2001 between James and the novelist Piers Paul Read in
The best spiritual books of 2019
December 17, 2019
Around this time I am trying to decide which books I have read during the year that still reverberate in my memory in a special way. It is always hard to choose between so many fine publications, but here goes: The 21: A Journey in the Land of Coptic Martyrs by Martin Mosebach (Plough Publishing).
Dorothy Day: A saint in the making
December 17, 2019
We are all interested in lives of the saints – those extraordinary men and women who show the rest of us what it really means (and costs) to follow Christ all the way. I thought of them as I read and wrote about the newly canonised St John Henry Newman. This scholarly Englishman, whose collected
How to have a prayerful Advent
December 11, 2019
St John Henry Newman did not temper Christianity to suit his readers’ delicate sensibilities. I was reminded of this when reading a recent Herald article by Michael Pakaluk, “Advent is a time to think about Christ’s Judgement”, which is a reflection on Newman’s own Advent sermon: “Worship, A Preparation of Christ’s Coming.” Pakaluk reminds us
How to have a prayerful Advent
December 11, 2019
St John Henry Newman did not temper Christianity to suit his readers’ delicate sensibilities. I was reminded of this when reading a recent Herald article by Michael Pakaluk, “Advent is a time to think about Christ’s Judgement”, which is a reflection on Newman’s own Advent sermon: “Worship, A Preparation of Christ’s Coming.” Pakaluk reminds us
A great distraction from dreary politics and dreary weather
December 10, 2019
If you are feeling jaded about politics, gloomy at the weather and unenthusiastic about praying, I suggest reading the latest work by Peter Kreeft, professor of philosophy at Boston College and the author of dozens of books, some of which I have blogged about over the years. It is Ask Peter Kreeft: The 100 Most
A Catholic pilgrim’s guide to Rome
December 10, 2019
People visit Rome for many reasons, usually as tourists. But for Catholics a visit to the “eternal city” should also be a pilgrimage; after Saints Peter and Paul went to Rome it became the cradle of Christianity, crammed with Christian history as it slowly overtook the pagan classical city. Father Michael Rear has written what
What can we do if a loved one lapses from the faith?
December 04, 2019
I don’t know any Catholic parent of adult children who doesn’t have a lapsed member of the family (or even more than one.) It is a common problem in the circles I move in. I have heard of home-schooled Catholic families where this is not the case, but even among them you find members who
Stay-at-home mothers can form their own ‘domestic monastery’
December 04, 2019
Today’s “woke” generation raises all kinds of social issues – some more deserving of support than others. However, one important social issue it will never raise or endorse is that of mothers who choose to stay at home when their children are young, knowing that this is easily the best way to help them become
Reissues and new releases: An overwhelming case for celibacy
November 28, 2019
Fr Alain-Marie de Lassus, of the Community of St John, has provided a wide-ranging study of adoration from a biblical, philosophical and theological point of view. His slim book, the newly reprinted Adoration in Spirit and Truth (Newman House Press, 128pp, £7.50/$10), is packed with scholarship and a prayerful understanding of man’s true relationship to
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