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Don’t look now, but tattoos are everywhere, and with people stripping off, more of them have been exposed than ever this summer. Tattoos were once the domain of sailors and eccentrics. Not anymore – a walk down any high street will confirm that tattoos are now big business. Nowadays shops offering tattoos and body piercing...

The story is told in Matthew (17:1-9), Mark (9:1-9) and Luke (9:28-36). It was a time when Jesus’ ministry was popular, when people were seeking Him out.  But on this day, He made time to take Peter, James and John, His closest disciples, up a high mountain.  In the fourth century, Cyrillic of Jerusalem identified...

Many Christians have dreamed of doing something spectacular for God, which would be remembered for centuries afterwards. Oswald, who lived from 605 to 642AD, was in a position to do so. He was a King, whose father, Aethelfrith, was a great warrior who laid the foundations of the great kingdom of Northumbria. But Aethelfrith was...

All in the month of August Carnage in Omagh Sir Terry Wogan – a national treasure The spawning of al-Qaeda – from militant Sunni Islamists Diary of a Momentous Year August 1918 – the Battle of Amiens</strong THE WAY I SEE IT – Rating the ‘experience’ Beware foreign plants Millennials see a bleak future August wars...

  Bit short of cash for your holiday this year?  Cajetan (1480 – 1547) should be the patron saint of anyone who needs some extra money – right now.  For it was he who founded the Monts de Piete – the pawnshops – in the 16th century.  They were first designed to help people through...

‘You need hands to hold someone you care for’ – that song of 1958 reminds us how hands can convey a wide range of gestures and meanings. Hands to embrace, hands to signal ‘Stop,’ hands to sound out applause, and hands to show welcome. In the life of the church, we can thinkof sacraments that...

Fortnite is one of the most successful – and most addictive – games ever. Thousands of worried parents worry that the game is taking over their children’s life. One father found his primary school aged daughter sitting on a urine-soaked cushion – after a non-stop ten-hour gaming session. And so, in desperation, parents pull plugs,...

It was: 100 years ago, from 8th August to 11th November that the Hundred Days Offensive in France and Belgium, took place. Allied Victory leading to the end of the 1st World War and the collapse of the German empire. 90 years ago, on 6th August 1928 that Andy Warhol, iconic American Pop artist, photographer...

If you enjoy reading the Bible and in encouraging others to have faith in God, then Dominic is the patron saint for you. His passion for helping Christians to learn and proclaim their faith led him to found the Order of Preachers, or Black Friars, because of the black cape they wore over white habits....

It was a busy Saturday afternoon in August, in the market town of Omagh, Northern Ireland.  A maroon Vauxhall Cavalier with false number plates was parked outside the outfitters’ shop, S.D. Kells.  Just after a quarter past two it blew up, killing 29 people including a woman pregnant with twins, and injured 220 others.  It...

The Mothers’ Union is now more than 140 years old. It has accomplished a staggering amount in that time, and nowadays numbers more than four million members, doing good work in 83 countries.  That is a far cry from the modest circle of prayer for mothers who cared about family life, which is how it...

Sir Terry Wogan, the Irish radio and TV presenter, was born 80 years ago, on 3rd August 1938. He was the epitome of a much-loved broadcaster – unthreatening, amiable and with a tendency to laugh at himself. Born in Limerick, Ireland’s third largest town, Terry showed no initial signs of immortality. His father was a grocer,...