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I recently visited the Beyond Caravaggio exhibition in the National Gallery in London. One of the paintings which struck me

The gospel reading from the First Sunday of Advent culminated with our Lord’s admonition to ‘Stay awake!’ This week we

If somebody closes his eyes and for a moment thinks in a Spanish soldier the resultant image would depict under a characteristic

"Stay awake" says the Lord at the beginning of Advent. Even though we do not know the day or the

The reason behind martyrdom is faith in Jesus Christ, at least from the martyr’s point of view. He is ready

When Jesus speaks about persecutions in Luke 21:12-19 he is not speaking about the violence when Christians are attacked by

In the parable of the Ten Gold Coins, Jesus tells a story of a nobleman going off to obtain his

‘Today, perhaps more than ever before, the world is eager to make a clean sweep of its past… In such

Today we celebrate the feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome.  Being the cathedral of the Roman Pontiff,

A son of a freed slave from Panama and a Spanish nobleman, Martin de Porres was born in Lima, Peru,

We must pray for the dead: it is precisely the reason for today’s commemoration. When our day comes we will

As our holy father Dominic lay dying, he addressed his brothers saying ‘Do not weep, for I shall be more