Dominic Perrem
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- Sep 28, 2026
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The theology of cardboard boxes (opens the original)
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Many of my children are not happy with toys. They want to play with the “real thing”. One has taken this a bit too far recently and wants to run along the road with vehicles. This worked out on the feast of Corpus Christi this year, when, as we were attending the procession after Mass in a nearby village, he realised his ambition walking in the street where cars normally are (and was then removed, indignant, from oncoming traffic). I relate to this rapturous fascination entirely, and would want
Flowers and the Blessed Mother (opens the original)
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I recently had a dream that I was in a friend’s house and was removing a long row of plastic flowers from a windowsill. I walked from the room and returned moments later to find all the plastic flowers had returned, looking precisely the same. I can’t think of anything worse than a plastic flower. This was something of a nightmare. I find that I might be moved by what the flower seems to be, only to be disappointed in the realisation that it is fake. It would be rather rude to go into your house
What physical books teach us about the Eucharist (opens the original)
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I have always loved books. My late mother’s copy of the Diary of St Faustina, dog-eared and crammed with prayers and devotional cards, is cherished on my bedside table. The last thing my father wrote was a dedication to my daughters on the title page of Sixty Saints for Girls. It was a book he had planned to give them since they were babies. He also gave a breviary to my nephew, who has recently rediscovered his Catholic faith. The gift of a book can go a long way, as it is something that contai
St John Henry Newman and the gorilla (opens the original)
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Nearly two centuries ago, in 1841, Sir Robert Peel argued that scientific understanding of the universe suggested “that the material and the moral world are connected… bespeaking the uniformity and completeness of a system of divine contrivance, the centre of which is man.” He was speaking at the opening of the Tamworth Library and Reading Room. It was to be a place where books on “religious controversy”, or anything on the subject of religious doctrine, would not be kept. Members would instead
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