
Peter Stanford
Journalist at The Telegraph
Columnist at The Tablet
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
independent.co.uk | Peter Stanford
In FocusThe Catholic Church looks set to canonise the late Carlo Acutis, a tech-savvy youngster who died in 2006, and with it, usher in a new era of religion at a time when worship is on the decline, writes Peter StanfordSaint-making in the Catholic Church – or canonisation as it is called – is traditionally a drawn-out, opaque process with the successful candidates who have emerged from it in recent times usually worthy but unsurprising long-dead clerics and nuns.
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3 weeks ago |
churchtimes.co.uk | Peter Stanford
Each to their ownI HAD walked down the wooden jetty to look at a pod of dolphins which my nature-loving daughter had spotted in the harbour. She is on a mission to cure me of the lingering effects of a nature-phobic childhood. If I so much as stroked Topsy, my Auntie Rita’s lovable mongrel, my mum would take me to the bathroom to wash my hands. “All animals are dirty,” she instilled in me; “so stay away from them.”I am pleased to report that I am in recovery.
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3 weeks ago |
msn.com | Peter Stanford
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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3 weeks ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Peter Stanford
Alistair Wood was instructed never to talk about his cloak-and-dagger upbringing at Fort Monckton. Fifty years on, he shares his storySpying is in Alistair Wood's DNA. Both his parents were agents in the SIS - the Secret Intelligence Service - better known now as MI6. So was his great aunt Agnes, while among his mother's circle of trusted friends was Harold "Shergy" Shergold, head of SIS's Soviet Bloc operations and credited as the model for John le Carré's George Smiley.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Amy Sedghi |Tom Ambrose |Sam Jones |Harriet Sherwood |William Christou |Angela Giuffrida | +5 more
Italy’s interior minister says 400,000 mourners in St Peter’s Square and surrounding area for funeral of Pope Francis
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