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Torch provides a new Catholic homily each week written specially for this web site by Dominican friars, and read by followers worldwide. Read more.
Guns and Roses
Twenty-Seventh Sunday of the Year. Fr Leon Pereira is neither an optimist nor a pessimist. J.R.R. Tolkien is sometimes accused of being
An Inclusive Party
Twenty-Sixth Sunday of the Year. Fr Peter Harries finds both challenge and promise in the parable of the Rich Man and
Money, Sex and Power
Twenty-Fifth Sunday of the Year. Fr David McLean preaches about how we can truly be set free. 'No servant can be
Alienation and Mission
Twenty-Fourth Sunday of the Year. Fr Jonathan Fleetwood finds in today's Gospel the Trinitarian pattern of the Church's mission. The full reading
Shamelessly Human
Twenty-Second Sunday of the Year. Fr Didier Croonenberghs invites us to hear God's call to take a higher place at
The First and the Last
Twenty-First Sunday of the Year. Fr Gordian Marshall finds great consolation in a central theme of St Luke's Gospel. Many years
The Peace That Only Comes Through Fire
Twentieth Sunday of the Year. Fr David Sanders dares us to risk being consumed by fire. I know a church where
A Doctrine and a Prayer
Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Fr Fergus Kerr finds something deeply appropriate in the timing of
A Thankless Task
Nineteenth Sunday of the Year. Fr Richard Ounsworth calls for mercy towards a group of people who do not often
Asking and Being Asked
Seventeenth Sunday of the Year. Fr Robert Pollock assures us that it is right for us to ask God questions. When
The Hunger of God
Sixteenth Sunday of the Year. Fr Bruno Clifton finds in two examples of hospitality offered to God a profound meditation
Just Love
Fifteenth Sunday of the Year. Fr David Goodill preaches on the difference between love and justice. Where does justice end and