Equality
Most years, the last week of Advent finds my family scrambling to finish the Christmas preparations. This year, it looks like everything will be...
Are We a ‘Godly’ People?
According to the Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain in his 1952 book The Range of Reason, there are Christians who, to all intents and purposes,...
A Fateful Choice, Forty Six Years Ago
As we celebrate the memorial of Pope Saint John Paul II on October 22nd, we should also recall that it was on the 16th...
Vivaldi’s Juditha Triumphans
Juditha Triumphans is an oratorio by Antonio Vivaldi, the only one of four he is known to have written which survived. Its date of...
18th Sunday: The medicine of immortality
Jesus saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them and cured their sick. ... And all ate and were filled (Mt 14:...
Tattoos as a Spiritual, and Bodily, Harm
“Do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you...
The Millennial Fugue
Spare a thought for millennials, perhaps the most persecuted sector of our increasingly ignorant and spiritually impoverished society.
Denied God and the firm Christian teaching...
Saint Damien of Molochai
(In light of the recent memorial of Saint Marianne Cope, who also worked amongst the lepers of Hawaii, and who nursed Father Damian on...
Antiqua and Nova: Artificial and Human Intelligence
(The Vatican - specifically, the Dicasteries for the Doctrine of the Faith, and the Dicastery for Culture - have issued a warning on the...
A large family is God’s blessing
By today's standards, a family with three children is considered to be a large family. A century ago, my great grandmother had 24 children:...
