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Pope Francis on life before and after Christ
In his sermon yesterday morning in the chapel of Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis stressed the need for Christians who are on the path of sanctification and not ‘halfway Christians.’ Pope Francis reflected on the first reading from the...
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My response to Sam Harris’s “The Moral Landscape”
Nearly three years after Sam Harris's The Moral Landscape was published in English, Sam has issued a public challenge. Anyone who believes that his case for a scientific understanding of morality is mistaken is invited to prove it in...
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Pope Francis and the evangelical pastor
In off the cuff remarks yesterday, Pope Francis told crowds in St Peter's Square that he spent roughly 40 minutes praying with an evangelical pastor before leaving his residence where both prayed to seek unity among Christians. “We Catholics must pray with each other and other...
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Chief Rabbi: atheism has failed. Only religion can defeat the new barbarians
In the Spectator dated 15 June 2013, Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks writes: I love the remark made by one Oxford don about another: ‘On the surface, he’s profound, but deep down, he’s superficial.’ That sentence has more than once...
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Pope Francis on ‘the eyes of the soul’
VATICAN CITY, April 26, 2013 Staff members from the Vatican Typography, the Vatican Labour Office and Vatican State Police attended the daily Mass celebrated by Pope Francis yesterday. During his sermon, the Pope spoke from John’s Gospel on Jesus’ words to his disciples:...
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Pope Francis to young people: Don’t be afraid to dream great things!
Here is a translation of part of what Pope Francis said at his weekly General Audience address in St. Peter’s Square yesterday: In the square, I saw today there are many young people. Is it so? Are there very many young...
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From the Boston bombings to a civilization of love
Here is the text of the sermon preached by Cardinal Seán O'Malley, archbishop of Boston, on Sunday 21 April 2013 at a Mass for the repose of the souls of those who died as a result of the bombings at...
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When Margaret Thatcher listened to John Stott
All Souls Orchestra and Choir under Noël Tredinnick arranged a series of Christian concerts, ‘Prom Praise’, first at the Barbican and later at the Royal Albert Hall. More than once, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher came to these with a...
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When CS Lewis, John Stott and Billy Graham met
In 1952, John led a CICCU mission at the University of Cambridge. Crowds at this, the first of many university missions he was to lead, were so great that stewards brought extra chairs into the side-aisles of Great St...
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When Cathering of Aragon stayed in Exeter
My wife Sheila (not shown in photo) has a meeting this morning at the Old Deanery in Exeter. I have reminded her that when the 16 year old Catherine of Aragon (shown in picture) was enroute from Spain...
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