Fourth Sunday of Lent. fr Andrew Brookes reflects on the relationship between justice and mercy. What is today’s Gospel parable really

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Sr Helen Prejean, well known as the religious sister featured in the film ‘Dead Man Walking’, recently came to Blackfriars,

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John 20:24-31Did Thomas put his finger(s) into the wounds of Jesus or not? I sometimes ask this question of

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Br Andrew Brookes, one of the Dominicans students (and thus contributors to Godzdogz) at Blackfriars, Oxford, concludes the priory's God