January-Peace

So, the 2025 Jubilee Year, was officially inaugurated on Christmas Eve by Pope Francis when he opened the holy door in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. He has given it the theme of “Pilgrims of Hope.” Bishop Frank Dougan gave the official start to the holy year in our...

“Catholic Families for Life” Newsletter from the National Commission for Marriage, Family and Life – latest version can be found at www.marriagefamilyandlife.org.uk

To me, Jane Dell was one of the “realest” people I have ever known. She was wonderfully and unapologetically just herself. That meant that you had to take whatever was on offer in any particular exchange, and Jane never left you in any doubt as to what that was on...

Pontius Pilate represents all secular power and justice but in its tragic claim to subject the Truth of Christ, the Truth who is Christ, to the perverse standard of human pride. He is aided and abetted, in fact he is cynically manipulated, by the corrupt religious power of the time:...

The prayers of every Mass are filled with the thirst for Christ to return and take us to Himself, to the fulfilment of all our deepest longings for life, love and peace. The Christian who is alert to the Lord and His Love knows that here below there is no...

We “only die once and after that comes judgment.” Why do we die, though? And why only once? Death is not God’s work or will, for He is Life itself. So, death can only be the result of a radical separation from Life, from God. Such separation is the meaning...