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Alexander Lucie-Smith
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Alexander Lucie-Smith
@ALucieSmith
Catholic priest and writer, doctor of moral theology. Author of 'The Chemist of Catania' , 'The Nymph of Syracuse' and others, available on Amazon and Kindle.
- Brace yourselves! June is the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus!
- Our Lady is trending on Twitter. Good news for the whole of humanity. It is August, the month of her Immaculate Heart.
- To love Catholic things, like the building of Notre Dame, but not to love the Catholic Church; to love the building deciated to her, but not love Our Lady; to love a church but not the Sacrament it houses, all this is the incoherence of the secular age.
- If you want to change the world say the Rosary every day. Just do it.
- He was correct to do so.My Catholic Priest publicly announced at every mass he was denying me Holy Communion following the assisted dying vote. Children who are friends of my children were there. This followed a direct threat in writing to do this four days before the vote. 1/3 observer.co.uk/news/national/โฆ
- Given that the Church in Chicago is not in a healthy state (declining numbers at Mass, parishes being closed, etc, etc) you would think its Archbishop had plenty of tasks and challenges more important than clamping down on people who actually want to go to Church.
- I can't understand why our Church has to be locked, but the supermarket next door is open.
- In keeping churches shut even for private prayer, the government is sending out a subliminal message about the way it sees religion. Christians represent the largest affinity group in the UK; being told we are less important than garden centres is not a good look.
- My candidate at the next conclave? Cardinal Zen, of course.
