WHEN ONE surveys what the mainstream media has to say about Arturo Toscanini and Maria Callas, both of whom occupy distinguished niches in the hall of fame of opera and classical music, one finds...
JOHN DEAR has just finished a live radio telephone interview with a local radio station. It is Sunday morning, the final day of a three day conference where he has been thrilling more than 300...
HUMAN RIGHTS protests don’t have to be aggressive or even violent to be effective. Mohandas K. Gandhi taught us that. When he challenged British imperial rule in India during the early 20th...
THE VERY NAME Auschwitz evokes memories of the hellish cruelty of all the Nazi prison camps. Yet these camps also produced heroes, and Saint Maximilian Kolbe, who was canonised by Pope John Paul...
A WOMAN shares a once-in-a-lifetime experience which brought her great happiness and pure joy. Amazingly, this ecstatic experience took place as she stood by her kitchen sink and hand washed dishes...
THREE-YEAR-OLD Tagalo was asleep when an early morning raid by Sudanese Arab horsemen – known as Janjaweed – left him with a shattered right leg. The same hail of bullets killed his baby...
