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The mysterious ‘Sword’ of the Archangel (opens the original)
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In the summer of 1987, I was a curate in the Church of England and had three months free before my next assignment as a school chaplain in Cambridge. I decided to use the time to make a hitch-hiking pilgrimage to Jerusalem from England, staying in monasteries en route. It was a great adventure and one of the most memorable experiences happened while I was travelling through the valley of Susa in the Italian Alps on my way to Turin. On the top of a mountain I spied a remarkable edifice – a church
Blood sacrifices ancient and modern (opens the original)
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“What,” I asked myself, “would a thoughtful person who was totally ignorant of the Christian religion make of the language and imagery of ritual blood sacrifice that pervades Christian theology and worship?” Our contemporary critic might (with understandable indignation) ask, “What is all this talk of blood sacrifice? You speak of ‘being washed in the blood of the lamb’, sing songs about ‘fountains filled with blood’ and Catholics talk about ‘this victim, this spotless victim, the precious blood
The Pope is not a Communist (opens the original)
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I’m sorry to admit that some of my fellow Americans, who also happen to be Catholics of a conservative hue, are known to make comments on social media in which their ignorance is matched by their vehemence. One such was the claim that Pope Leo – and Francis before him – is a communist, a charge that arose in reaction to the Holy Father’s call for generosity and gentleness towards immigrants. Indeed, whenever any Catholics call for the “preferential option for the poor” I shudder as MAGA Catholic
The Assumption: difficulties, answers and faith (opens the original)
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In my own journey from American fundamentalism to the Catholic Church I once got into an argument with a robust Franciscan about the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. After exhausting him with my nit-picking arguments he heaved a great sigh and rolled his eyes and retorted: “Well, we believe the Immaculate Conception because the pope tells us to.” In other words, the bottom line was Church authority, not particular points of argumentation. Some years later I engaged
Excommunication: what it is and what it isn’t (opens the original)
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This month, on July 21, sees the 817th anniversary of the Massacre at Béziers as part of the Catholic Church’s attempt to eradicate the Cathars – known as the Albigensian heresy. Cistercian abbot Arnaud Amalric besieged the town of Béziers, which was populated by both Catholics and Cathars. Amalric’s troops confronted the townspeople – Catholics and Cathars together – with many of the Catholics shielding their Cathar neighbours. When asked how to sift the wheat from the chaff, Amalric famously r
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