IN SEPTEMBER, the papal nuncio in the former Soviet republic of Georgia warned that the entire region of the Caucasus could become a powder keg because of the poverty and...
RANIA ARAFAT, FROM Amman in Jordan, might have turned 28 this year if her two aunts had not turned up at her door one morning in 1997. They said they had arranged a secret meeting...
IT IS WIDELY CONSIDERED that next month's presidential election in the United States will be one of the tightest electoral battles in history. Forget the talk of Florida fixes, in...
IN A CORNER OF the playing fields in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, there is a little shrine with images of the Virgin Mary, Jesus, photographs of Johnny Delaney, plastic flowers, toys...
THE LITURGICAL FEAST of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina will be celebrated on 23 September; it will be the third celebration to be held since the 'stigmatised friar' was canonised by Pope...
POOR OLD JOHN, my granny would say, killed just three weeks before the end of the Great War. She always urged that someone in the family should visit her brother's grave in France...
