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Statement on UK Rearmament
This editorial was published in the Lent/Easter 2025 edition of our newsletter. Read the rest of it here. In 1940, Dorothy Day, Servant...
London Catholic Worker
6 days ago

The Divine Sophia
from Issue 77, Advent 2024 There are two ways through life: the way of Nature and the way of Grace.’ Thus begins Terrence Malick’s Tree...
Tom Bennett
Jan 3

Obituary: Edwin Kalerwa
from Issue 77, Advent 2024 On 10th Se ptember 2024, Edwin Kalerwa passed away in hospital, after suffering from cancer. Edwin lived at...
Nora Ziegler
Dec 31, 2024

The Flight into Egypt
from Issue 77, Advent 2024 for Yousif M. Qasmiyeh  He  sharper than the cutting edge he angles  handles  makes tables foursquare  ...
Anthony V. Capildeo
Dec 28, 2024

Kindness in Precarious Spaces
from Issue 77, Advent 2024 A few weeks ago, I was in the Dunkirk camp, where I regularly join Art Refuge* in their work with the medical...
Br Johannes Maertens
Dec 24, 2024

Muggings
Peter Maurin’s Easy Essay on St. Francis, printed in this year’s Summer LCW newsletter, refers to Johannes Jorgensen writing that ‘St....
Anne Jones
Dec 23, 2024

Advent Reflection
The Se cond Sunday of Advent adds a new word, a message about man’s authenticity. Someone who encounters the Ultimate, who knows about...
Fr Alfred Delp SJ
Dec 21, 2024

Externalisation
Those of us w ho are not saints are likely to find ourselves, eventually, asking the Lord ‘when did we see you a stranger?’ ( Mt 25:44 )...
Thomas Frost
Dec 18, 2024

Revolutionary Naivety
from Issue 77, Advent 2024 It felt like an exciting and inspiring time. I had been involved with Christian Climate Action for several...
Martin Newell
Dec 15, 2024

Finsbury Park is a beach!
Henrietta Cullinan's interview with Br. Johannes Maertens for our Easter 2023 newsletter Firstly, what do you do? I try to do… pastoral...
Henrietta Cullinan
Nov 30, 2024


Blessed are those persecuted in the cause of right
from Issue 72, Easter 2023 I had some court fines for my part in the Insulate Britain (IB) protests in 2021. Previously I refused to pay...
Martin Newell
Nov 27, 2024


Bishop Paul McAleenan's Adress to the Home Office Vigil
June 2023 The reality of the life of a refugee, the hardships and hazards they endure, opens this Refugee Week as we listen to the...
Bishop Paul McAleenan
Nov 24, 2024


Barbenheimer
Much has been made of the stark thematic contrast between the simultaneously released Barbie and Oppenheimer , to the point of receiving...
Thomas Dennehy-Caddick
Nov 14, 2024


Where are the Christians?
It puzzled him he had met no Christians. Where were they? Where is that Jerusalem community Luke writes about?
Br Johannes Maertens
Nov 9, 2024


Why is renunciation important?
A reflection on the importance of renunciation and rest in our lives
Sel Nyteshade
Nov 7, 2024


A Reflection on the Elbit Protests
Rida Vaquas discusses the sacrifices of those protesting against Elbit Systems
Rida Vaquas
Nov 5, 2024


Prefer nothing to the Love of Christ
Br Johannes Maertens on the journey of personal spiritual growth and conversion
Br Johannes Maertens
Nov 1, 2024

Feeling Seen
I Stand Here Ironing  – Tillie Olsen ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.’ – John...
Anthony V. Capildeo
Oct 1, 2024


Politicians must rule in favour of God’s will for planet Earth
Looking after God’s creation and realising how we have affected our natural environment, we will be able to reconstruct our relation wih God
Edwin Kalerwa
Sep 23, 2024


Empowering the Homeless
As a guest at the Giuseppe Conlon House, I find homelessness depressingly damaging. The population of refugees, asylum seekers with the...
Edwin Kalerwa
Sep 23, 2024
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