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When chastity is spoken of in these times most people simply associate it with the edict of ‘not having sex

At first sight the notion of sobriety as a virtue might seem rather dull, or even worse, puritanical, but St.

John Paul II, a handy goalkeeper in his youth, often lauded the positive aspects of sport:The correct practice of

By fasting, St Thomas means to go without food for a period of time. According to this definition, we are

It used to be very much part of Catholic culture and consciousness to abstain from meat on Fridays. Indeed, this

Summer 2009 saw the publication of a number of works by members of the Blackfriars community. Fr Richard Finn published Asceticism

For the past few years, the Dominicans who minister in England and Scotland have been leading an annual pilgrimage to

The recent deaths of Henry Allingham and Harry Patch, the last surviving First World War veterans in Britain, marked the

I met an old lady once who had given her life to the 'care of the well body'. This was

Thank you all you who have been following our series on The Life of Virtue. Many interesting comments have come

Shamefacedness, the state of being ashamed, is not a virtue according to St. Thomas but neither is it a vice,

To view a slideshow of photos from fr Columba Ryan's funeral, which took place in St Dominic's Priory church in