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"Too late have I loved you, O beauty of ancient days, yet ever new! Too late have I loved you! And behold, you were within, and I abroad, and there I searched for you; I  was deformed, plunging amid those fair forms, which you had made. You were with me, but I was not with you. Things held me far from you, things which, if they were not in you, were not at all. You called, and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed and shone, and...

Editorial January – February 2012Fr Ray Blake's internet blog (https://marymagdalen.blogspot.com/) is always informative and thought provoking. The post for Friday, October 21, 2011, "Conversation on a train", ran as follows:An interesting conversation on a train the other day between a young university student who got on the train with some young Middle Eastern students. I don't know if the young man was Catholic or...

Father Michael Nazir-Ali looks at the dangers in the proposed legislation 

Book Review: A book every feminist should readThe Abolition of Woman: How Radical Feminism Is Betraying Women by Fiorella Nash, Ignatius Press, 234pp, £14.99reviewed by Pia Matthews Fiorella Nash’s book The Abolition of Woman is a passionate, punchy and honest account of being a pro-life feminist in the twenty-first century. Nash’s central thesis is that feminism has been high-jacked by a radical strand that has itself become oppressive, bullying and intolerant of other feminine voices. This ...

The Scandal Of The Cross“To the Jews a scandal, to the Greeks foolishness, but to those called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.” (I Cor. 1:23f.) So St. Paul described the reactions of hearers to his preaching of Christ crucified. Mel Gibson’s film “The Passion of the Christ” has called forth the same reactions in our day. Many who had not even seen the film...

At a launch of his latest book, Test Everything: Hold Fast to What is Good, Cardinal Pell announced that at the recent Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference all the bishops agreed that their most important job was to proclaim Christ as our Lord and Saviour. The three hundred or so laity present laughed. Cardinal Pell read our minds and said, well, this is progress given what some people think we should be doing.

Richard Conrad O.P. FAITH Magazine September-October 2010If we are to preach the Christian Gospel, it is not enough to prove that God exists. The central mystery of Christian faith and life is the Most Holy Trinity {Catechism of the Catholic Church, 234), into whom we are baptised. I will locate the theme I was given, Christ's Primacy, within a Trinitarian perspective on creation and humanity. Christ is the Creative - and Re-creative - Word....

In the first part of this article, published in our previous issue, Fr. Holloway critiqued the view, held by some theologians in the post-conciliar years, that we cannot comprehend the nature of God and therefore cannot love God in a personal sense.

Since we have become very familiar with attributing the title 'Priest' to Christ, it may come as a surprise to find that Christ is never explicitly called a priest in any of the books of the New Testament except the Letter to the Hebrews. In the Gospels the term 'priest' always refers to the Old Testament institution of priesthood.[1] The title High Priest is always in a context of opposition to Jesus.[2] In the letters and Revelation...

Holloway on... God the Real: Can we  Know and Love Him? (Part 1)