Articles By Peter Stanford
July/August 2016
As the prison population ages, more and more elderly, often disabled inmates are left in their cells, unable to cope yet fearful of release
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October 2015
The Capuchin friar single-handedly returned a medieval church in Italy’s Appenine mountains to its former glory
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April 2013
‘An everyday ramble round a graveyard subliminally corrects any tendency to assume ourselves immortal’
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July/August 2010
A new project allows crime victims to move on — by pardoning those who attacked them
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April 2010
Did the Reformation rescue us from theocracy? Or are we poorer without pilgrims, saints and feasts?
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September 2009
The veneration of saint's relics largely died out after the Reformation, but the bones of one 19th-Century nun inexplicably attract millions of pilgrims from around the world today
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April 2009
Growing numbers of men are over six foot and have to endure painfully small train seats. The modernisers of our railways must heed their cries
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December 2008
Until the Vatican opens its archives, speculation about Pius XII's failure to condemn the Holocaust should not be used to indict all religion
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September 2008
‘Fame in the modern sense now pollutes every corner of our culture. Without instant name-recognition, you're just not worth bothering with’
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About Peter Stanford
Peter Stanford is a biographer, columnist and former editor of the Catholic Herald. His book, The Extra Mile: A 21st Century Pilgrimage, was published in 2010 by Continuum.
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