It is only in mystical contemplation that our weak human love is so purified that it enables this love to mix, mingle and merge with the love of the Holy Spirit. Then, suffused and surcharged with this love we will not only be able to enter into the mystical body of Christ but into Christ’s […]

MY WEEK began quite wonderfully in Southern Spain, where I had grabbed a break from TCW thanks to Margaret’s sterling ‘holding the fort’ for me. So, there I was on Easter Sunday with family and grandchildren for the culmination of Santa Semana – their Holy Week – and the last week of Lent. As we climbed the hill to […]

THE outpouring of grief following the death of Pope Francis was like a wall of noise, a practically uninterrupted blanket of praise, a seamless garment of tribute. Even his enemies fought to temper their public comments, undoubtedly conscious of the enduring Latin injunction de mortuis nil nisi bonum, that one must not speak ill of the […]

CONFLICTS between church and state usually erupt when a church is concerned with the morality of legislation or actions of a government. However heated these conflicts can become, we rarely find the state posing an existential threat to the church. This is just what we find in Estonia at the moment. The Estonian Government has […]

IN A striking defence of free speech, the High Court has reaffirmed the core democratic principle that the law protects not only polite or popular views, but also those others may find offensive, upsetting, or wrong. The ruling dismissed a legal challenge to Greater Manchester Police’s (GMP’s) decision not to prosecute gender critical blogger Stuart Campbell, […]