‘For the love of God’: it’s an utterance of exasperation at an unwelcome or intimidating task and said with sincerity

Recently I have started reading fairy tales again, prompted by GK Chesterton’s great love them, and, in particular those of

In the last month we have celebrated the Feasts of, variously, St Aloysius, St Cyril of Alexandria, St Irenaeus, St

Are you an anarchist or a legalist? I suspect you’d want to reply, ‘neither’. But the reality is that most

One of the joys of pilgrimage if, like me, you are not a meticulous planner, is that you are always

If you were told of someone, aged twenty-five, twice-widowed, who had lost all seven of her children before their teenage

I was recently invited to contribute an article to the online journal of the Jesuits, Thinking Faith, on the topic

On this Easter Sunday, Br Toby Lees, O.P., offers us a reflection on this joyful day. On behalf of all the

‘What are Pope Francis’s links with the north east of England?’, is not, I imagine, a question that has crossed

Everybody knows that Jesus was a nice guy who wanted to do away with laws, rules and regulations so that

There’s an all-too-common line of thought that says, ‘I’m not a bad person; I try not do others any harm’

On the Feast of St Michael the Archangel in 2013, my three co-novices and I lay prostrate on the cold