Father Gregory(from my autobiography)

You think of monasteries as happy, peaceful and ordered places. I rapidly discovered this wasn’t Downside.  Ever since its foundation in 1605 in Flanders there had been division between the young turks who wanted the danger of the English mission...

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Electricity as cheap as chips

Nuclear is not the answer.   The most amazing aspect of our age is that so many people are so unworried about the climate horror the scientists say will fall upon our children unless we act with the utmost determination and...

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A New Downside

I offered a plan involving support from OGs and the many friends of Downside to save it but the monks were not interested.  Can we still save what they have abandoned for understandable reasons even without them, and perhaps even...

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Bad American Dreams

Bad American Dreams Millions of Americans support Donald Trump. Many believe Trump’s claim that the Democrats stole the election and some hold democracy in such contempt they stormed the Capitol.  Some even threatened to hang the Vice-President Mike Pence in front...

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