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from Issue 77, Advent 2024 for Yousif M. Qasmiyeh He sharper than the cutting edge he angles handles makes tables foursquare ...

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...

Peter Maurin’s Easy Essay on St. Francis, printed in this year’s Summer LCW newsletter, refers to Johannes Jorgensen writing that ‘St....

The Se cond Sunday of Advent adds a new word, a message about man’s authenticity. Someone who encounters the Ultimate, who knows about...

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 )...

from Issue 77, Advent 2024 It felt like an exciting and inspiring time. I had been involved with Christian Climate Action for several...

Henrietta Cullinan's interview with Br. Johannes Maertens for our Easter 2023 newsletter Firstly, what do you do? I try to do… pastoral...

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...

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...

Much has been made of the stark thematic contrast between the simultaneously released Barbie and Oppenheimer , to the point of receiving...

It puzzled him he had met no Christians. Where were they? Where is that Jerusalem community Luke writes about?

A reflection on the importance of renunciation and rest in our lives

Rida Vaquas discusses the sacrifices of those protesting against Elbit Systems

Br Johannes Maertens on the journey of personal spiritual growth and conversion

I Stand Here Ironing – Tillie Olsen ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.’ – John...

Looking after God’s creation and realising how we have affected our natural environment, we will be able to reconstruct our relation wih God

As a guest at the Giuseppe Conlon House, I find homelessness depressingly damaging. The population of refugees, asylum seekers with the...

Members of the new Government have told us several times over the last few months that we have entered an “age of insecurity”. Keir...

A repost of Dorothy Day’s 1936 Catholic Worker editorial on pacifism The Catholic Worker is sincerely a pacifist paper. We oppose class...

In this book, David Craig, real life poetry professor, becomes James, self-styled beatnik and narrator, in order to tell the story of his...