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The wonder of a world beyond our grasp
(6 minutes) The ever-stimulating Catalan professor Jaime Nubiola explores culture, friendship, art and technology, and discovers that the truly philosophical attitude is to rejoice that reality always exceeds our understanding and can be seen from so many different points of view.
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Finding festival: a man who experienced Easter joy every day
(7 minutes) Ben Cribbin discovers happiness, springtime and commitment in the diaries of Brother Roger of Taizé.
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Start a revolution: tell the truth
(8 minutes) Renouncing the search for truth is to condemn our lives to futility, argues Joseph Evans.
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Dare we hope?
(7 minutes) World prospects seem bleak as 2025 begins, but Julia Wdowin still finds reasons for hope.
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“Society tells us we can handle everything on our own, and it’s not true”
(7 minutes) Nuria Casas is the author of the book La cicatriz que perdura (The scar that lasts), in which she tells how she managed to overcome an eating disorder. Teresa Aguado Peña heard her story.
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A death observed
(3 minutes) As the UK parliament debates a proposal which seeks to legalise euthanasia, Ronnie Convery chronicles the death, both ordinary and extraordinary, of a simple Glaswegian woman.
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Returning to our hearts
(6 minutes) Pope Francis thinks our age is forgetting about the heart. And he has written a major new document, Dilexit Nos, to remind us of its importance. We offer a few extracts.
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The Privatisation of Death
(8 minutes) Campaigners for the legalisation of assisted suicide argue that the choice to end one’s life is ultimately a personal decision. But is the choice to die ever just personal? asks Joseph Evans.
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Why the best love is unequal
(10 minutes) Families, and economies, work better when we’re prepared to love more. Elizabeth Oldfield explains.
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Slowing down with St James: what the Camino taught me
(5 minutes) In our second article on the Way of St James, Yana Laszcziw explains how learning to slow down helped her engage with the humanity of others and ask questions about her own life direction.
