Many will remember the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris two years ago as a profound moment in their lives. The symbolism was powerful: is it a sign of the death of the Faith which founded European and Western civilisation? Jesus promised He would “cast fire on the earth,”......
Having witnessed bloody persecution of Christians at firsthand in Iraq and Syria, it can sometimes be embarrassing to claim Christians are being persecuted in the West. Yet a growing intolerance is happening, with attacks on buildings and persons. St. Peter tells us if we are “upbraided for the name of......
Fr. Ben recorded a special message detailing the wonderful updates we have received from our Lebanon families....
Once again, in the middle of terrible struggles, the families you are helping to start businesses are sending us positive reports. Tarek Kheir, from Douma in North Lebanon, who is starting a cheese and dairy business, bought his second cow and some machines (pictured) to milk and to produce Ghee......
The virtue of magnanimity, “greatness of soul,” is needed more than ever. In Church and society we see much pusillanimity - cowardly timidity, the vice of the hireling and not the Good Shepherd. C.S. Lewis said lack of magnanimity produces “men without chests.” Dwelling on the good, the true and......