Tag Archives: Church and Life

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 ...

Part I Joseph Heller’s novel Catch 22, tells the tale of a United States Air Force bombardier in World War II, John Yossarian, who defines as his enemy anyone who is attempting to kill him. Armed with this definition of ...

I do not talk much about the devil. Perhaps its because I think that people do not want to hear about it, – writes Bishop Peter in The Church and Life. Some think that the devil does not exist. Others ...

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 ...