Month: October 2023

The Sycamore Gap tree, on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland, was cut down in an act of vandalism last week.

Chris McDonnell reflects: Sycamore Gap                                                                      Standing in a sloping gap                                                                      in a dry stone wall                                                                      a sycamore tree spread                                                                      its open hand shadow                                                                      across the…

Soline Humbert: Pope Francis is wrong to declare female priests a ‘closed question’

Reprinted from The Irish Times Rite and Reason column. Link: https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/10/01/pope-francis-is-wrong-to-declare-female-priests-a-closed-question/ Rite & Reason: Many Catholics who do not fit in a patriarchal, hierarchical, model of church feel a deep…

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