To all my readers, I wish you the gifts of this Holy Season and a year of peace.  More reflections […]

At the Sunday liturgy at the parish which I attend, we celebrated All Saints Day yesterday with the rest of

I am on sabbatical this semester and spent three month in the US and am now back, working on a

It was recently announced that the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization will be launched by Pope Benedict. The focus

As a Church, we are in the midst of the fourth chapter of the contemporary sexual abuse crisis in the

I have just endured another terrible homily at the liturgy this Sunday. The priest started off well, referring to the

Two earthquakes are shaking the Vatican these days. The first is Pope Benedict’s response—or lack of it—to the sexual abuse

Cardinal Francis Rode, who is heading the Vatican Investigation (Inquisition) of American women religious (he who has been photographed wearing