Tag Archives: Church and Life

As a Retreat master at an all-boys Catholic College, it is part of my duty to invite priests to the Retreats, often to celebrate the Eucharist but mainly to hear the confessions of the students. When I create a roster ...

Actually, that’s why each one of us is born for. We normally call that going to heaven. Of course, we all want to be “holy!” Recently Pope Francis wrote a letter to the world on this topic. He talks about ...

All people search for happiness. Most people, if they are really honest with themselves, come to realize that of all the things they have done in life in order to be happy and fulfilled, have not really worked out. Some ...

It looks like almost everybody does, judging from the way we buy lottery tickets. Recently in Australia, one third of all Australians bought a ticket for a 1 in 80 million chance to win 100 million dollars. In the USA ...

St. Augustine of Hippo, the great doctor of the Latin Church, once wrote that when we sing in praise of God, we pray twice. Be that as it may, I remember once asking members of one of the most famous ...

Observers of Ukrainian culture and faith have always stated the defining moment in Ukrainian culture was the day that St. Volodymyr in 988 baptised all of Ukraine on the banks of the river Dnipro, – writes Bishop Peter Stasiuk in Church ...

Most of us are acquainted with a domino run. As a child we may have stood dominoes in a line in order to view the elaborate patterns we could construct, and seeing over what distance and over what obstacles they ...

Daily reading of Scripture, especially the New Testament, should be joined organically to the practice of daily prayers. For in prayer we address God and in Holy Scripture God speaks to us. The Word of God helps parents to raise ...

Eliza Hamilton was in her seventies, and staying with her daughter at the latter’s home in Washington DC. She was in the backyard with her nephew, when the maid brought out to her a calling-card. It was James Monroe, the ...

In today’s society it is not unusual to hear about the forbidding of the “Our Father” being banned in certain places. Nativity scenes, Crosses and other religious symbols are removed or forbidden. All this flies in the face of the ...

If all agree to a lie – a new ‘truth’ has suddenly been discovered. Without the questioning of such ‘truths’, individuals, societies, and generations of men and women, can base their lives on illusions, – writes Dr. Andrew Thomas Kania in Church ...