Daniel Flynn

Position: Journalist

Articles

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Pope tells artists beauty can be a path to God November 21, 03:13pm EST 

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict met artists from around the world in the Sistine Chapel on Saturday and urged them to inject spirituality into their work, saying contemporary beauty was often "illusory and deceitful."  Full Article 

Blog Posts

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Time to re-think ban on women at Greek holy site?

Last month I visited Mount Athos, a self- governing monastic state in northern Greece where some 1,500 monks live according to rules which have changed little in the last millennium. Athos’ 20 monasteries ...  Full Article | Comments [2] 

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Omar Sheikh, a childhood friend turned Pakistani militant

The weekend bomb which tore through the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, killing 53 people, was a reminder that Pakistan is entering the eye of the storm of Islamist militancy. But for me, it was also a more ...  Full Article | Comments [7]