Getting ready for Christmas
The singer Andy Williams would have you believe that it’s the most wonderful time of the year. Yeah, right. Try...
November 2008
While greed ruled…
AS world leaders gather to find ways of solving the global economic crisis and curb corporate greed, it might be appropriate...
Tribute to a rich life
AS WE KNEW HIM: Reflections on M Basil Pennington, edited by Michael Moran & Ann Overton. Paraclete Press, Massachusetts. 2008....
Parents: Learn from your kids
Last month I promised to explore how parents can deal with certain challenges to their authority and moral convictions. The...
Anti-Abortion Rhetoric
Cardinal James Stafford, formerly Archbishop of Denver in the United States and now holding a high Vatican position, characterises the...
Balthasar, Melchior and Gaspar?
Matthew 2:2Â says: Some wise men came to Jerusalem from the east. Why are they traditionally said to be three kings,...
Annulments: Why So Slow?
Having been divorced 13 years ago in a civil court, I applied for an annulment; not to remarry but for...
Better preaching
History may well record Barack Obama’s acceptance speech after being elected the 44th president of the United States as a...
Come in from the attic, and say the new Mass responses
On the first Sunday of Advent this year, the new liturgical responses will be implemented. With my parish, and maybe...
