THE OLYMPICS and the Paralympics are the biggest peace-time event in the world. “To use the power of the Games to inspire lasting change” is a vision which Christians can say ‘amen...
IN CHOOSING portions of Saint Anthony’s scriptural commentaries as a starting point for this monthly article, I am hampered by the fact that the modern three-year Sunday lectionary does not...
DEAR FRIAR RICK: my parents divorced five years ago after years of almost constant fighting and quarrelling. They had got to the stage that they couldn’t stand the sight of each other. On...
AS I BEGAN to write this article an announcement was made from Rome and the Holy Father that Blessed Kateri was to be canonized on October 21, 2012. She will now be known in our Catholic world as St...
BANKERS get a rather bad press nowadays, being blamed for the financial crisis that is hitting much of the world. Does St Anthony offer us any guidance in our stewardship of money? In his day, banks...
DEAR FRIAR RICK: My husband and I are in our 80s and thanks be to God we are in relatively good health. Our morning routine involves an entire pharmacy of pills for our aches and pains, but apart...
