HUNDREDS OF people died when fighting broke out in Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia in August, prompting a Russian invasion of Georgia and several weeks of conflict involving...
AT A SOLEMN ceremony celebrated on Sunday, May 4, 2008, in the Basilica of Notre Dame in Laus, the Bishop of Gap and Embrun, Monsignor Jean-Michel di Falco Léandri, announced the official...
RELIGION is never far below the surface in American politics. A highly religious country, polls suggest 7 out of 10 US voters want their president to have a strong personal faith. Catholics...
DIGNITY and justice for all of us. This is the theme for this year’s December 3 International Day for Persons with Disabilities, as well as the 60th anniversary of the...
ON A COLD Spring day in 2007 I joined three other Catholics outside the London headquarters of Amnesty International, ready to go in and urge the organisation not to abandon its neutral stance on...
WHILST giving a series of lectures on prayer at Belmont Abbey Retreat Centre I was cornered by one of the participants, who demanded to know my qualifications. Although I was taken aback I couldn...
