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The art of not quite getting there
(5 minutes) Instead of ‘existing in anxiety’, Lucía Martínez Alcalde celebrates the freedom of incompleteness.
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“Let us disarm words and we will help to disarm the world”: Pope Leo XIV’s programme for a new media
(6 minutes) Joseph Evans is dazzled by an outstanding call by the new pontiff for a revolution in journalism and social communication.
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On shame, vulnerability and marble jars
(12 minutes) Isaac Withers explains how reading Brené Brown, the story of the garden of Eden, and some ground rules for vulnerability helped him learn that guilt helps but shame doesn’t.
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Blessed are the merciful
(8 minutes) Joseph Evans celebrates a pope whose constant instinct was to show mercy first and ask questions later, and considers what qualities will be required from his successor.
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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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The opposite of toxic masculinity is…
(9 minutes) Elizabeth Oldfield is grateful for the true manhood of some knights in blue boiler suits.
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Between the Cross and the chromosomes: locating the line in biomedical ethics
(10 minutes) Bernadette Rose considers the relationship between biomedical ethical codes and Christian morality.
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“The wealth of Africa is in its people”
(9 minutes) Despite rampant corruption led by the country’s governing class, Arinze Nwokolo is still optimistic about the future of Nigeria.
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Let women be what they are
(7 minutes) It’s time to let women develop their real gifts and not force them into following false models, says Marystella Ramirez Guerra.
