AT SAN GIOVANNI Rotondo an event of great importance is taking place on April 24: the exposition of the body of Padre Pio of Pietrelcina to the veneration of the faithful. The exposition was...
IF YOU SEARCH through the Bible looking up the few references to eggs, you won’t find a single text which makes any kind of connection to Jesus’ Death and Resurrection. Yet, if you search...
MOST PEOPLE can remember where they were on September 11, 2001; on 9/11 – as it has become known. I was among around 2,000 people taking part in a protest outside a massive arms fair in...
WHEN YOUNG Tasmanian Catholic Samuel Clear decided to take the late Pope John Paul II’s call to universal ecumenism literally, he didn’t think it would almost cost him his life. ...
POPE BENEDICT XVI released his second encyclical, Saved in Hope (Spe Salvi), continuing his emphasis on the basic truths of the Christian life, and immediately raising expectations...
THE JUBILEE year of the Lourdes apparitions began last year on December 8, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. One hundred and fifty years ago, and precisely from February 11, 1858 to April...
