Fr Gavan Jennings
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- Sep 28, 2026
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What Raphael understood about the Archangel (opens the original)
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It is very interesting to compare Raphael’s portrayal of the Archangel Michael in his 1518 work Saint Michael Vanquishing Satan with contemporary popular portrayals of St Michael. The contemporary preference is for brooding warrior-like figures, with hypermasculine bodies and massive swords like something out of an online epic fantasy game. These portrayals fail, however, to show a key, if not the key, characteristic of St Michael: he does not conquer Satan by virtue of his own power, but by the
The bed at the heart of the Odyssey (opens the original)
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I’m much looking forward to seeing the already greatly acclaimed film The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan. The critics are raving about it. In Britain, the Telegraph declared it the “film of the year”, and Metro claims the film will “change cinema forever”. For The Times, it is “a masterpiece in every way”, and the Irish Times considers it “a spectacular feat of cinematic storytelling”. And by all accounts it is a very faithful rendering of Homer’s poem, despite initial fears that it was
Immigration, rights and responsibilities (opens the original)
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Perhaps the greatest political question of the 21st century to date is that of immigration. As early as 2004, the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People pointed to the enormous scale of the phenomenon: “Today’s migration makes up the vastest movement of people of all times. In these last decades, the phenomenon, now involving about two hundred million individuals, has turned into a structural reality of contemporary society.” (Erga migrantes caritas Christi). S
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