So great a mystery
Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, a Roman senator in late antiquity, was horrified by the Emperor Constantine’s conversion to Christianity....
14.2.2021
3:34
30.1.2021
16:42
Jesse thistle – a human triumph
It is something to give joy to the heart of God and to us. He is...
23.1.2021
16:26
New and shocking
People keep holding a gun to my head. But it is only a thermometer. Normally it...
17.1.2021
7:21
A break-in
There are break-ins and break-ins. When people want change, they try to break into the system...
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...
