Magnificence is a virtue that expresses courage in situations where big projects require substantial expenditures. A glimpse at pettiness, the

Until the 12th of September, Sir John Soane's Museum in London will be hosting an exhibition entitled: Images from the

Twentieth Sunday of the Year. Fr Brendan Slevin always has a song in his heart. This is not the homily I

Readings: Revelation 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab; 1 Corinthians 15:20-27; Luke 1:39-56 In the summer of 1270 our brother Thomas Aquinas took advantage

Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Fr Thomas Skeats preaches on the theological importance of the Assumption. In

In order to be virtuous, it is necessary to have emotional responses that are appropriate for the situations in which

We recently celebrated the Feast of the Transfiguration (6 August), and in the Preface for that feast, the Church recalls

In normal, everyday situations, the process of deciding how to act involves our emotions, the use of reason and the

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We are half-way through our series on the life of virtue and so far we have had one post on

Nineteenth Sunday of the Year. Fr Timothy Radcliffe asks what it means to be truly alive. This is the third week

Aristotle alerts us to this difficulty about knowledge, that there is nothing apart from individual things and yet knowledge