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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


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


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


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


Externalisation
Those of us who are not saints are likely to find ourselves, eventually, asking the Lord ‘when did we see you a stranger?’ (Mt 25:44) We know in principle that what we do for the poor we do for Christ, but the definite moments when it becomes clearly imperative to act on that principle come up so rarely that, in practice, we generally do less than we should. We might recognise refugees and illegalised migrants today as some of those people among whom Jesus told us we should e
Thomas Frost
Dec 18, 2024


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


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


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


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


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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