A taste of glory
There are many reasons to celebrate the victory of South Africa in the Rugby World Cup in Japan. Rugby was the game of the whites in...
9.11.2019
16:54
4.11.2019
14:51
Tragedy on a train
It was a long train journey from Karachi in the south of Pakistan to Rawalpindi in...
28.10.2019
6:34
Conservation is a luxury
On arrival in 1905, Fr Joseph Moreau, the first Jesuit to settle in Zambia, defended his...
20.10.2019
8:19
I’m alright, Jack
This saying used to be, perhaps still is, current to describe a person who is self-satisfied...
13.10.2019
17:52
Places of encounter
This Sunday, 13 October, John Henry Cardinal Newman will be declared a Saint by Pope Francis...
29.9.2019
11:35
A deportation
As we entered the plane there was a disturbance. A man was crying out in a...
19.8.2019
8:35
A consoling smile
She remembered that smile forty years on. Mrs Hungwe lived in a remote area of NW...
12.8.2019
2:53
Dressed for action
I feel sorry for the soldiers patrolling the streets of Srinagar. They have to enforce their...
5.8.2019
6:26
I will build bigger ones
‘I will pull down my barns and build bigger ones’. The farmer had a good year...
28.7.2019
15:31
Search and you will find
Can you teach a fish to swim? Can you teach persistence to people who have persisted...
21.7.2019
10:32
Peeling an orange
The late Jean Vanier, the founder of l’Arche communities, used to tell the story of giving...
13.7.2019
18:30
He was moved by compassion when he saw him
A father in his twenties and his little daughter were drowned two weeks ago trying to...
7.7.2019
6:39
Come, be my light
Mother Teresa of Calcutta is a name many have heard but may know only the barest...
