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By Adrien Bridel Adrien Bridel draws a subtle parallel between the Bible and comics, which, far from being fanciful, allows us to open up a passageway between two cultures that have more in common than meets the eye. “With great ...

by Pierre Lambert, O.P. Pierre Lambert, a Dominican, has been helping people suffering from inner distress for over three years, in the framework of a Service set up by the Church. Translation Louise Thunin “…a thorn was given me in ...

After  Gregory  of  Nazianzus translation Canon Tony Dickinson   
 
 Lord,   
Continue  to  give  to  me,
So  that  I  can  share.    Continue  to  forgive  me,     
So  that  I  know  how  to  be  lenient.    
 
 Continue  to ...

by Jacques Juillard translation Louise Thunin Jacques Juillard describes a quest for self, an identity that is difficult to define, since it involves movement through time and cannot be grasped. Do I exist in an everlasting way? Does something that ...

Telling Children about God Gilles Castelnau translation Louise Thunin Tell your children that God is an all-powerful Father, and they’ll pray for a good grade in school and a sunny weekend. Then they’ll lose their “faith”, because it doesn’t work. ...

Theology, like any discipline, is a constant search. For that, it needs to build its own vocabulary to evoke the ideas it develops. But these words sometimes become inaccessible, like all specialised languages. We want, in this series, to make ...

By Jean-Claude Deroche Translation Louise Thunin In a lay society such as France’s, religious holidays often take on a secular form. Thus, Christmas has become a family gathering dedicated to the joy of the children. Easter and Pentecost are appreciated ...

Goran Sekulowski Translation Tony Dicksinson Hegel wrote that reading the morning paper is a kind of realistic Morning Prayer. Might we extend this thought by saying that the smart-phone, People magazine or television have today replaced morning and evening prayer? ...

Goran Sekulowski Translation Tony Dickinson A great teacher and churchman, liturgist, pastor and preacher, defender of the faith against heresies, enjoying a very wide veneration in various contexts and dying in the odour of sanctity, John Chrystostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, ...

Jean-Marc Tétaz Translation Tony Dickinson * [Translator’s note] In French Protestantism a “multitudinist” church is one which does not demand a profession of faith from its members but welcomes all who are seeking God, as well as their families, and ...