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Newman’s message of tolerance needed more than ever

Newman’s message of tolerance needed more than ever

Posted on May 10, 2020 by Tom Collins

From The Irish News, October 15 2019 As I type these words, 1,500 miles away in Rome a Catholic convert is being elevated to the sainthood. John Henry Newman is the first Englishman of modern times to be canonised.…

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Pope in Ireland: faithful must put faith in god not the church

Posted on August 30, 2018 by Tom Collins

That Pope Francis lives in comparative humility in a hostel rather than a palace, and drives round in a Skoda, may be refreshing. But it is not enough. The men (dispiritingly they are all men) in a position to…

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Francis: the loneliest leader in Christendom

Posted on November 21, 2015 by Tom Collins

Pope Francis: praying for the spirit of change Imagine the problem. You are the recently appointed charismatic executive chairman of a global organisation. It is creaking at the seams, and you have been brought in to sort it out.…

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Pope Francis opens fire on ‘the enemy within’

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Tom Collins

  Pope Francis takes on the might of the curia   He makes an unlikely superhero. Mild-mannered and bespectacled, like a septuagenarian Clark Kent, but when he puts on his white cape he is fearless. Not yet two years…

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