Pope Benedict's vision of the end of world
One surprise among many in Pope Benedict's new encyclical is a quotation from Heraclitus of Ephesus, a pre-Socratic philosopher who lived 500 years before Christ. Heraclitus had seen Nature as “a heap...
View ArticleDiscovered: a picture of the Crucifixion from the time of Jesus?
Seventy ring-bound books from the Holy Land, with leaves made of lead, little more than the size of credit-cards, have been called "the major discovery of Christian history". They are said to have been...
View ArticleFrom cleaning lady to bishop … in my lifetime
So the vote on women bishops is over but the debate continues. As a Roman Catholic I'm conscious that less than fifty years ago women were only allowed near the altar if they were carrying a tin of...
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