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10-FAMILY-IN-TEARS

The positive side of melancholy

January 30th, 2015 | comments icon 0 COMMENTS

Normally none of us like feeling sad, heavy, or depressed. Generally we prefer sunshine to darkness, light heartedness to melancholy. That’s why, most of the time, we do everything we canto distract ourselves from melancholy, to keep heaviness and sadness at bay. We tend to run from those feelings inside us that sadden or frighten u That’s why, for the most part, we think of melancholy and her children (sadness, gloomy nostalgia, loneliness, depression, feelings of loss, feelings of regret, intimations of our own morality, a sense of missing out on life, fear of what lies in the dark corners ... continue reading.
10-POPE-&-ALBANIAN-IMAM

Becoming brothers and sisters in faith

January 23rd, 2015 | comments icon 0 COMMENTS

By Fr Ronald Rolhesier ... continue reading.


10-THOMAS-MERTON

Importance of splitting the moral atom

January 16th, 2015 | comments icon 0 COMMENTS

By Fr Ronald Rolhesier... continue reading.


9-ALISTAIR-DUTTON

Support for SCIAF makes a difference

December 25th, 2014 | comments icon 0 COMMENTS

By Alistair Dutton... continue reading.


10-THE-VISITATION

Revisiting the Visitation is long overdue

December 19th, 2014 | comments icon 0 COMMENTS

By Fr Ronald Rolhesier... continue reading.


10-JEAN-BELIVEAU

Honouring talent and grace—Jean Beliveau

December 12th, 2014 | comments icon 0 COMMENTS

By Fr Ronald Rolhesier... continue reading.


10-BR-CHRISTIAN

A story of self-sacrifice and the Eucharist

December 5th, 2014 | comments icon 0 COMMENTS

By Fr Ronald Rolhesier... continue reading.



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  • Souvenir section marking SCIAF’s 50th jubilee with comments from Scotland’s bishops, SCIAF current and former staff, volunteers and partners on the vital work of the Catholic charity.
  • Scottish pupils and teachers mourn for Malawian bishop who died in car crash.
  • Scottish schools mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
  • A packed St Aloysius Church in Glasgow was the venue for a musical Celtic Mass as part of the Celtic Connections Festival.
  • Nationalist MSP Clare Adamson declares her support for persecuted Christians.

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