Douglas Knight

Three things – the Church prays unceasingly, it withdraws to pray, and it prays in public, in the open air, before the whole city. The prayer of the Church is unceasing, and it alternates between this public form and this withdrawn, even monastic, form.
The practice of perpetual prayer(Latin: laus perennis) was inaugurated by the [...]

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What is economics about?
Jesus once made the empirical observation that since the days of Noah and Lot, people have been doing, and until the end of the world presumably will be doing, four kinds of things. He gave these examples: “planting and building,” “buying and selling,” “marrying and being given in marriage,” and “eating and [...]

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The British, never fond of children, have lost all knowledge or intuition about how to raise them; as a consequence, they now fear them, perhaps the most terrible augury possible for a society. The signs of this fear are unmistakable on the faces of the elderly in public places. ..
The British may have always inclined [...]

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‘The London Bombers’ is a TV film the BBC made but then dropped.
It makes no sense until you understand the moral contortions of the postmodern liberal establishment. In the past few years, the Foreign Office, the Home Office, the West Midlands Police, the liberal press, the Liberal Democrats, the Metropolitan Police, the Crown Prosecution Service, [...]

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In June, Christian registrar Lillian Ladele won a case for religious discrimination against her employers, Islington Council in London, after she was ‘discriminated, bullied and harrassed’ for refusing to conduct civil partnership ceremonies for gay couples…
Since the CEHR has a statutory responsibility to oppose all forms of discrimination, one might have expected it to have [...]

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The welcome candor of Cardinal Kasper’s remarks at Lambeth can easily be captured in a series of quotations.
* “In our dialogue we have jointly affirmed that the decisions of a local or regional church must not only foster communion in the present context, but must also [...]

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