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2 september 2025 A Fall
If there is one thing that strikes us to the point of nausea when we consider famous, once highly esteemed spiritual teachers and founders who, within living memory, have come tumbling down from their pedestals, is it not precisely the lurid nature of their betrayals? Les videre

Brev om Stortingsvalg

31 august 2025
Our Lord’s command of charity obliges us, as Catholics, to work for a good and just society. Les videre

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26 august 2025 On Hunting Dogs
The monk seems to embody the very type of a pacified human being, whose inward order is outwardly reflected in a grave demeanour and measured movement. What image might such a person use in order to provide a simile apt to render the secret of his consecrated life? Les videre

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19 august 2025 Living with Infirmity
The Lord who calls us is free to choose whatever means he deems effective to open our hearts, bodies, and minds to this great gift. An infirmity or injury, a serious diagnosis, that may at first make us feel as if we were struck down by destiny can turn out to be, in fact, a provision made by a kind yet nonetheless cross-shaped providence. Les videre

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12 august 2025 Xeniteia
Xenophobia is fear of people who are not locals. Xeniteia is at heart a neutral term indicating the state of living abroad, be it as a trafficked worker or as a wealthy retiree in a comfortable flat on the Costa del Sol. Les videre

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5 august 2025 Philosophy
The enclosure of philosophy within a narrow framework of technical terms and assumptions was a notable feature of intellectual life in the twentieth century. As a result many women and men take it for granted, now, that philosophy has nothing to say to them - ‘philosophical’ has come to spell ‘useless’. Les videre

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29 juli 2025 Gold
Having stood firm through spectacular temptations that had racked him in spirit, body, and mind, Antony was exposed to one last trial utterly concrete and mundane, that of filling his pockets with wonga. Les videre

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22 juli 2025 Foresight & Providence
‘Your heart’, says the Lord, ‘is where your treasure is.’ It can be mortifying to discover that our treasure, and so our heart, is no longer where we thought it was. Les videre

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16 juli 2025 Lovely Books
It happens often enough that people who generally do not cling to material things or comforts, people who do not much mind, are furiously tied to their books. Les videre

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8 juli 2025 Lacerated Body
It is not the Apostles, it turns out, who are sozzled; it is the world, wearily drunk on its self-sufficiency, pragmatic pleasure-seeking, thrills, and aimless meandering. Les videre

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7 juli 2025 Questions and Answers
Once again, Jamie and I gather to address questions raised by people who follow the series, questions that impress us by their insight and sincerity. Les videre

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24 juni 2025 Sympathy
Most of us conduct our daily lives within predictable parameters where familiar boundaries steer our behaviour and choices. But what happens when we find ourselves in unfamiliar, unbounded places - is our virtue then reliable and firm? Les videre

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17 juni 2025
God’s concern is not to keep us comfortably undisturbed. His concern is that we should know the truth, which alone sets us free. Les videre

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10 juni 2025 Discernment: Three Approaches
At once dispassionately lucid and shrewd, the Fathers teach us to discern. That is why they could give counsels both sublime and practical. Les videre

Samtale med Eric Schüldt

6 juni 2025 Sökarna
Eric Schüldt lager vakre programmer på Sveriges Radio, for eksempel serien Text och musik, som vever sammen melodi og poesi. Han har alltid vært overbevist om at litteratur kan ha eksistensiell betydning, uoverbevist av dem som trekker et altfor klart skille mellom litteratur og "virkelighet". Les videre

Conversation with Maggie Fergusson

5 juni 2025 The Tablet
There’s a sense of honesty about Augustine – a sane realism - regarding the human condition, in its sublime and its deplorable aspects. He understood the importance of friends, of not being self-sufficient; he took the science of theology extremely seriously; he had a capacity for joy. Les videre

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4 juni 2025 Lust
Lust confers not vision but blindness. It locks me in myself, making me live in the world as if I were its sole significant subject, subsisting on arousal. Les videre

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27 mai 2025 Austerity at Home, Charity Abroad
Great self-control is needed to accept with tact an offering that repels me, and to do it so whole-heartedly that the giver is thrilled. Les videre

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20 mai 2025 Necessary Words
There are bad, angry words we should keep from speaking, fighting against them with all our might. There are other words, however, that call out to be spoken - if we keep them shut up in our heart they will poison us. Les videre

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13 mai 2025 Words that Wound
‘I have always liked the phrase “nursing a grudge”’, says the Reverend John Ames in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, ‘because many people are tender of their resentments, as of the thing nearest to their hearts.’ To let resentments go is costly. Les videre

Conversation with Céline Hoyeau

10 mai 2025 La Croix
In the Church we easily spend our time proposing sublime answers, well thought out and elegantly phrased, to questions no one is asking. Les videre

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7 mai 2025 Donkey on the Loose
There is a stage at which speech is still potential - a thought has been articulated, the words lie ready on our tongue, but as yet they exist only in our mind. At that moment we exercise sovereign freedom to choose whether to speak or whether to keep silent. Les videre

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2 mai 2025 Questions and Answers
Hvis Gudsfrykt ikke er angst, men eksistensiell ærefrykt, hvordan forklare det for folk som kun har kjent frykt i form av straff og panikk? Les videre

Konklave: Samtale med Luke Coppen

30 april 2025 The Pillar
Paven har en fabelaktig og frydefull misjon, å forkynne Kristus for verden! Men hodet vi venter på, vil bli tornekronet. Les videre

Eternal Word in Time

23 april 2025 Die Tagespost
The Christian proposition is founded on the claim that an Eternal Word, the metaphysical and intentional source of all there is, engages with the world and speaks to it for its flourishing’s sake; and that this Word, at a given point in time, entered history to renew human nature from within, repairing malfunction, so to speak, by re-installing the operating system. Les videre