A break-in
There are break-ins and break-ins. When people want change, they try to break into the system and reform it. The break into Congress in the United...
17.1.2021
7:21
10.1.2021
13:20
A few drops of water
The more we acquire the power to destroy our earth the more, happily, we acquire the...
4.1.2021
11:55
The diaphany of the divine
I like the suggestion of Teilhard de Chardin that the word Epiphany, for the feast where...
24.12.2020
21:53
Christmas
The word ‘Christmas’ is appearing less and less in countries where people think the word imposes...
19.12.2020
17:45
Disturbed by these words
In 1954 Iris Murdoch published her first novel, Under the Net. It is about a man...
13.12.2020
17:09
‘Hope is not the same as optimism’
This observation, by the Czech playwright and president, Václav Havel, is quoted by Fr Diarmuid O’Murchu...
5.12.2020
18:25
Advent takes us beyond
Advent takes us beyond ourselves. There are times when we glimpse this, especially when we are...
28.11.2020
15:16
A lonely death
We had an unusual anniversary this week: a dying man attended by a dying man. Fr...
21.11.2020
12:24
By being what we are
The Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, Jonathan Sacks, died on the 7th November. This news...
14.11.2020
20:00
‘Our children may see this’
Far away from Africa in a corner of SE Europe a war raged that ended with...
8.11.2020
6:23
Ten bridesmaids, ten interpretations
There are different ways you can interpret the parable of the ten bridesmaids which we read...
1.11.2020
6:42
‘An ill-fated people’
The late Lawrence Vambe – he died last year aged 102 – opened his celebrated book,...
24.10.2020
20:33
Standing up
My eye caught a report in the news lately of a courageous Indonesian who is engaged...
