A diocese in Ireland has banned Céline Dion’s music from funerals, provoking much ire among potentially bereaved Catholics. The decision […]
Striking the right note at a funeral not as easy as it sounds Read Post »
Before I took a wrong turn and stumbled into journalism, I worked for some years in the hotel trade as
Culture of bad service Read Post »
Pope Benedict’s sartorial stylings have made news recently, in lifestyle magazines and in the Vatican’s newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano. Last year Esquire
Pope Benedict, style guru for the noughties Read Post »
Every writer lives in fear. It’s a dread that would make dealing with the taxman followed by an unanaesthetised root
The writer’s great fear of the blank mind and page Read Post »
In 1984 a German filmmaker asked the Carthusian grand prior whether he might film the contemplative monks of the order’s
The soundtrack of silence Read Post »
The Admiral’s Wife and Other Stories: Reflections and Reminiscences, by Fr Kevin Reynolds. Self-published. 2007. 87pp. Reviewed by Gunther Simmermacher
The Admiral’s Wife – Fr Kevin Reynolds Read Post »
MARY MAGDALEN: The Essential History, by Susan Haskins. Random House, Houghton. 2006. 518pp. Reviewed by Günther Simmermacher
Mary Magdalen – The essential history Read Post »
JANUARY 2006 The Vatican Congregation for Evangelisation reveals that 27 Catholic missionaries were killed in 2005. In his first encyclical,
Year-end Review 2006 Read Post »
