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It came as a complete surprise, because I am only the second score writer ever to receive one. When I answered the phone just before going to bed, and heard someone say “Buongiorno...

February 28 2007 | by

On that day, dear readers, we will be commemorating a truly remarkable man, a friar about whom some of our older brothers still retain personal memories, Fr. Placido Cortese, who was born...

February 28 2007 | by

After two thousand years can we still believe in the picture of Jesus that the Gospels have handed down to us? And what is the relationship between Jesus and the Church?

These all-...

January 30 2007 | by

ON THE FIRST day of the year we celebrate the World Day of Prayer for Peace. In the Biblical sense, peace is the essence of the Messiah’s gift for humanity – it represents that salvation...

December 27 2006 | by

Everything we know about him comes from the Sacred Scriptures. We know he was a carpenter, a working man. He wasn’t rich for, when he took Jesus to the Temple to be circumcised and Mary...

November 24 2006 | by

DESPITE THE clamour and controversy aroused by his address at the University of Regensburg, Pope Benedict XVI will be visiting Turkey from November 28 to December 1. The climax of...

October 18 2006 | by

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