style=width:300px;height:271px;float:right;" >WHEN A Los Angeles pastor met with a family to plan a memorial service for a woman who had ended her life by suicide, he was told by the family that...
DEAR FRIAR RICK:I am an elderly lady who, fortunately, is still healthy enough to live in her own home. I never married and have no children, but I do have nephews and nieces who, however, never...
ENGLISH-speaking Catholics worldwide took a keen interest in the visit of Pope Benedict to Great Britain. The progress of the English language around the world has been tied for centuries to the...
MISERY in Niger, already hit by a serious famine caused by failed harvests, was compounded earlier this year as floods swept across parts of the country.
WITH THE 4th volume of Saint Anthony’s sermons now out, I have been giving some attention to the ancient sources for his Life. Like Saint Francis himself, Anthony was fortunate in having...
THE EARLIEST documentary reference to St Anthony that we have – written while he was still alive – is found in Thomas of Celano’s first Life of St Francis. The focus of the...
