WHEN I was a child, Sunday was that special day when we ate roast chicken. In those poor, post-war years, it was the gastronomical highlight of the week, and my family was among the very few in the...
“OUR TEARS should not flow after three in the afternoon.” This was what a boy scout suggested to all his young companions who, in a church filled to capacity, had come to pay their last...
REMEMBER the film Quo Vadis... the great Hollywood blockbuster of the early 50s starring Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, and the unforgettable Peter Ustinov in the role of the evil Emperor Nero...
LAST SUNDAY a lady came to me for confession. The woman was really desperate because one of her next-door neighbours had, in practice, ruined her life.
I HAVE always had a passion for films and the cinema. In the course of time, I have accumulated a small collection of my favourite DVDs. There is, however, a group of movies that, although I like...
AS EXECUTIVE Director of the Messenger of Saint Anthony, I spend a great deal of time in my office next to the Basilica: 9 to 5, Monday to Friday. On Sundays, however, I spend part of the...
