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Why God should want and need us is a mystery. But it is true: otherwise he would not have created us...

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Searching for God

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his...

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Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering...

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Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days ...

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Basil Hume

Born: 1923-03-02

Died: 1999-06-17

Basil Hume OSB, OM (2 March 1923 – 17 June 1999) was a monk of the English Benedictine monastery of Ampleforth Abbey and for 13 years its abbot until his appointment as Archbishop of Westminster in 1976. His elevation to a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church followed during the same yearMore