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...
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...
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...
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...
