Tag Archives: Church and Life

I ask the reader for patience as I present a series of vignettes, to hopefully unpack what I believe to be an important message. First, my grandmother was a Polish woman gifted with a sardonic wit. One day someone announced ...

In October of 2018, the Catholic Church held a Youth Synod in Rome. The Pope, many cardinals, bishops, youth and others attended. In February 2019, the Holy Father issued a final document on the Synod. In 2017, the Australian Catholic ...

On Thursday, 12th of December 2018, our Patriarch Sviatoslav issued a document called “God’s Word and Catechesis”. It is in fact a pastoral letter of our Synod which was written during the Synod of 2018 in Lviv, Ukraine. This document ...

Dead Souls (B) Yet that the individual seeks to meditate highlights that within this burgeoning market of meditation, there is an aboriginal element yearning within the most atheistic or agnostic man or woman which understands that they indeed have a ...

Ever since I was a youngster, I have heard the people argue the most about religion and politics. It seems to be true but then at the same time it first does not sound right. Both our faith and our ...

Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that: “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” In fact it is a curious thing, that we never cease being perplexed at why our friends are attracted ...

Do you know how to raise your children? Of course you do. If you look around the community, you would probably agree that you raise your children more or less the same as everybody else does. But researchers, psychologists, community ...

A cynic or perhaps better said, a realist, could quite plausibly add that the capacity of the Church to validly celebrate the Sacrament of Marriage has been significantly compromised since the disintegration of the family unit in the Western World; ...

I want to speak today about the wisdom of the child – the beauty of innocence – the freshness of new life; a life that brings light unto the darkness too often found in the world. If I was to ...

We all know that violence is never the solution for our troubled world. There certainly are lots of problems around but starting wars in not the answer. Violence and wars lead to forced migrations, tremendous suffering, a waste of resources, ...

The world is oblivious to what is happening in Ukraine – Russia has been waging an undeclared war over the past 4 years since the Revolution of Dignity and the ousting of Russian backed President Victor Yanukovych. The Ukrainian army ...