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A calm approach to migration
(9 minutes) Migration is an issue which provokes strong disagreements and it is rare to find a balanced assessment of both the challenges and opportunities it presents. But in this article Pablo García Ruiz makes a very good attempt.
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Why work? What my manual labourer father taught me
(5 minutes) A conversation with her father helped Mary Ann Macdonald appreciate that you need to work for deeper motives than money or social prestige.
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How to stop the West from falling apart
(8 minutes) Jenny Sinclair believes that Catholic Social Thought can save us from the social fragmentation which is afflicting the Western world.
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Building the Common Good
(6 minutes) As Western society shows so many signs of disintegration, Jenny Sinclair outlines how we can work together to build a society in which everyone can flourish.
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The window of the soul: the value of attention
(6 minutes) Catalan philosopher Jaime Nubiola says we have to pay attention to life to really learn its lessons.
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“My poetry is an attempt to put a vertical beam in the horizontality of modern culture.”
(10 minutes) Edward Clarke is a poet who thinks he can add to the psalms and connect with the cherubim. And he’s delightfully sane! Adamah’s Editorial Director Joseph Evans interviewed him.
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Always open: why churches should open their doors
(5 minutes) In a time of crisis and confusion, a church can be a place of refuge from the noise and a source of inspiration. But Phil McCarthy finds too many churches are keeping their doors closed.
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When framing becomes defaming
(4 minutes) Frames in art are meant to help a work stand out and better express its reality. But José Maria André is concerned that in everyday media framing is often used to distort and even falsify what people are trying to say.
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Learning death: the importance of connection
(5 minutes) Jenny Sinclair describes how her mother’s efforts to support her dying husband, Jenny’s father, taught her how relationships with each other and with God make it easier to face the natural reality of death. And also about the meaning of life.
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Could do better: human dignity, what it is and how we could respect it more
(8 minutes) As much as our age claims to respect human dignity, it often fails to do so. Joseph Evans examines a just published Church document which argues we have much room for improvement.
