Year-end Review 2006
JANUARY 2006 The Vatican Congregation for Evangelisation reveals that 27 Catholic missionaries were killed in 2005. In his first encyclical,...
2006
Happy New Year, crocodiles!
What a note on which to end one year and begin another. It is all a question of perception of...
Prayers for 2007
In 2006, the world was spared the astonishing series of natural disasters and terrorist attacks that shook us in the...
The meaning of Christmas
GUEST CHRISTMAS EDITORIAL BY PROFESSOR PETER HUNTER –Â Christmas means different things to different people. For the young children of families...
The meaning of Christmas
A reflection by Professor Peter Hunter Christmas means different things to different people. For the young children of families who...
Keeping Jesus warm
On Christmas Day we celebrate the fact that the Word became flesh. Or, to use a profound phrase of Benedict...
Voting and abortion
Is abortion the moral equivalent of murder, even if not the legal equivalent, because of our pro-abortion legislation? If so,...
Rediscovering Christmas
Commenting on a recent “Santa Claus Parade” in his English hometown, an Internet blogger remarked on the succession of floats...
How saints became patrons
Ever since I saw my Great-aunt Evelina get down on her knees in urgent and desperate supplication to St Anthony...
