Even if it is incorrect because the earth is spherical, instinctively we look up in the sky whenever we think of heaven, and we look down into the bowels of the earth whenever we think of hell. As always, the...
My children sometimes talk about things Tom and I got right in our parenting. It’s a blessing that they notice these things and hope to include them in their own parenting. The most recent example of this is...
Now that the feast of St Valentine is over it is wise to reconnect with the greatest values which make our lives all the more meaningful. One such value is love. When the concept and practice of love has become so much...
A young man in San Francisco named Kevin was involved in what could have been a tragic event—but fortunately his story turned out to have a happy ending. He had been deeply depressed as a teenager, and at the age of...
Warning: Statements made in this article are not supported by either Doctors of the Church nor medicine… My knees hurt. Age, arthritis, sports… who knows why. Besides routine aches, I also notice this joy of aging when...
On Wednesday 5 February 2025, the Memorial of Saint Agatha, a rare pearl of love and unity, went to God. I am referring to the passing away of the famous anti-drug campaigner Mgr Victor Grech. I had the grace of...
We are swamped with words. Some poisonous like gossip; some devastating like slander; others unsettling like rumors and criticism. Most of them, though, are empty and meaningless, hot air—precisely. How many millions of...
The essence of leadership is magnanimity and humility, so states Alexandre Harvard, French Catholic and Leadership Guru within the European Community. [Harvard: 2014, 2018] It is the willingness to take on great tasks...
Courage, combined with the mysterious workings of grace, keeps us moving forward on the Christian road. Without it we would be stuck in the mud, or worse, move backward. Quiet courage is a serene motivator that guides...
But who will endure the day of his coming? For he is like the refiner’s fire, or like the fuller’s lye. …He will sit refining and purifying silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi… (from the first reading, Malachi...
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