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Editorial: Thou shalt not kill (even murderers)
(1 minute read) Reflecting on an article from last week, Ronnie Convery shares his strong feelings on the death penalty.
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The life and death of a good man
(4 minute read) Lessons of love are to be found scattered around the memory of slain British parliamentarian David Amess, writes Ronnie Convery.
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Can the Catholic Church be trusted?
(7 minute read) Ronnie Convery looks at potential solutions to the crisis of credibility currently experienced by the Catholic Church.
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Did you hear the one about the Pope and the Ayatollah…?
(7 minute read) A roadmap for dialogue between religions with a relevance beyond the Middle East may be the lasting legacy of Pope Francis’ visit to Iraq, writes Ronnie Convery.
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The efficiency of evil: Auschwitz and the detail of genocide
(7 minute read) Ronnie Convery is shocked by the minutiae of a death camp and its hideous attention to detail.
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Word warping in a time of pandemic
(5 minute read) Ronnie Convery finds himself having a grammar meltdown as he ventures out after lockdown.
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Healthy minds and healthy bodies
(4 minute read) Ronnie Convery examines the practical steps we can take to keep our lives in balance, not neglecting mind or matter, as we enter a new version of “normal” after lockdown in many parts of the world.
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Is a new form of journalism possible in the internet age?
(6 minute read) Thanks to the internet anyone can be a journalist. But has this really contributed to truth and social cohesion? Ronnie Convery learns from a master communicator that there is a better way forward.
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Walls, walls everywhere …
(5 minute read) Ronnie Convery highlights the dangers of public policies which foment populism and favour division, even in the midst of a pandemic.
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Editorial: Don’t just survive, thrive!
There was a time when survival writing was a rather niche market. If you looked really hard, or asked the bored assistant, bookshops tended to stock a light range of boy scout-esque manuals on what to carry as emergency rations, the joys of Kendal Mint Cake and how to light a fire with sticks. More recently (before the lockdown, of course), if you mentioned the term “survival writing”, you would have found yourself conducted to the shelves containing another genre … generally filed under “self help”, the survival in this case being of a different order: how to survive a divorce, how to survive a bereavement, how to survive redundancy…
