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Inventory: Trees of Knowledge
[Anthony V. Capildeo OPL is a Trinidadian Scottish writer of poetry and non-fiction. Recent work includes Polkadot Wounds (Carcanet,...

Anthony V. Capildeo
May 18
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Safeguarding Love
[This article was first published in the Lent/Easter 2025 edition of our newsletter - read the rest here! ] Since Keir Starmer took...

Thomas Dennehy-Caddick
May 15
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Solidarity and Racial Justice
From September to December 2024 I was in Calais, at Maria Skobtsova House, a house of hospitality for the most vulnerable refugee women...
Moya Barnett
May 12
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Tea, Coffee, Cocoa
[This article was originally published in our newsletter for Lent/Easter 2025 - read the rest here !]  For a long while now,I’ve spent a...
Thomas Frost
May 9
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Taking Time for God
[This article originally appeared in the Lent/Easter 2025 edition of our newsletter - read the rest here! ] “You must know when to find...

Br Johannes Maertens
May 6
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A Journey North
[This article was first published in the Lent/Easter 2025 edition of our newsletter - read the rest here! ] In the spring of 2020, the...
Paul McGrail
May 5
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Hope in Spite of Present Difficulties
[This article originally appeared in the Lent/Easter 2025 edition of our newsletter; read the rest of it here .] We seem to be constantly...

Martin Newell
May 3
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Statement on UK Rearmament
This editorial was published in the Lent/Easter 2025 edition of our newsletter. Read the rest of it here. In 1940, Dorothy Day, Servant...

London Catholic Worker
Apr 10
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The Divine Sophia
from Issue 77, Advent 2024 There are two ways through life: the way of Nature and the way of Grace.’ Thus begins Terrence Malick’s Tree...
Tom Bennett
Jan 3
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Obituary: Edwin Kalerwa
from Issue 77, Advent 2024 On 10th Se ptember 2024, Edwin Kalerwa passed away in hospital, after suffering from cancer. Edwin lived at...

Nora Ziegler
Dec 31, 2024
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The Flight into Egypt
from Issue 77, Advent 2024 for Yousif M. Qasmiyeh  He  sharper than the cutting edge he angles  handles  makes tables foursquare  ...

Anthony V. Capildeo
Dec 28, 2024
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Kindness in Precarious Spaces
from Issue 77, Advent 2024 A few weeks ago, I was in the Dunkirk camp, where I regularly join Art Refuge* in their work with the medical...

Br Johannes Maertens
Dec 24, 2024
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Muggings
Peter Maurin’s Easy Essay on St. Francis, printed in this year’s Summer LCW newsletter, refers to Johannes Jorgensen writing that ‘St....
Anne Jones
Dec 23, 2024
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Advent Reflection
The Se cond Sunday of Advent adds a new word, a message about man’s authenticity. Someone who encounters the Ultimate, who knows about...
Fr Alfred Delp SJ
Dec 21, 2024
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Externalisation
Those of us w ho are not saints are likely to find ourselves, eventually, asking the Lord ‘when did we see you a stranger?’ ( Mt 25:44 )...
Thomas Frost
Dec 18, 2024
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Revolutionary Naivety
from Issue 77, Advent 2024 It felt like an exciting and inspiring time. I had been involved with Christian Climate Action for several...

Martin Newell
Dec 15, 2024
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Finsbury Park is a beach!
Henrietta Cullinan's interview with Br. Johannes Maertens for our Easter 2023 newsletter Firstly, what do you do? I try to do… pastoral...

Henrietta Cullinan
Nov 30, 2024
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Blessed are those persecuted in the cause of right
from Issue 72, Easter 2023 I had some court fines for my part in the Insulate Britain (IB) protests in 2021. Previously I refused to pay...

Martin Newell
Nov 27, 2024
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Bishop Paul McAleenan's Adress to the Home Office Vigil
June 2023 The reality of the life of a refugee, the hardships and hazards they endure, opens this Refugee Week as we listen to the...
Bishop Paul McAleenan
Nov 24, 2024
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Barbenheimer
Much has been made of the stark thematic contrast between the simultaneously released Barbie and Oppenheimer , to the point of receiving...

Thomas Dennehy-Caddick
Nov 14, 2024
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