THIS MONTH’S column takes on a bit of a different form. It’s a response to a question that came to me from a group of young adults with whom I was having dinner. We were discussing...
THERE WAS an amusing advertisement on English television recently in which a young mother is preparing a meal for her baby and another for the dog. When her phone rings, she becomes so absorbed in...
DEAR FRIAR RICK: I am a deeply religious woman, like the rest of my family members: my parents and my younger sister. For the last three years I have been dating a wonderful man who really cares...
THE ENTIRE world was focussed on Brazil this summer. Stunning images of Pope Francis greeting millions of young people at World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro – under the outstretched arms of...
MY ATTENTION was drawn recently to a very sad story from the United States. It concerns a couple who were found dead in their New York apartment, having committed suicide with helium gas. They left...
