There is a beautiful song written by Pete Seeger and sung by the Byrds in the early 50’s – To everything there is a season, and a time to every […]

Many years ago when I worked in Germany,  I met a politician who was appointed as the high commissionar of the United Nations for refugees.  He was a man who […]

One of the great spiritual leaders of our time is the Indian Jesuit Anthony de Mello. Anthony D’Mello said he felt God’s call in his teens. When he asked his […]

Very often a book or a film begins with a story about somebody who is searching for somebody or something, a new land, a treasure, or a person.  One of […]

Flannery O’Connor was an American writer who lived in the early 20th century. She was a catholic and being born in Georgia she lived in the Bible Belt in the […]

Many years ago when I was studying in Rome I was going to a talk in the Gregorian Univeristy about the family. One of the speakers at the conference was […]

Father Damien, a Belgian Priest, also Saint Damien of Molokai, born on January 3, 1840, and died on April 15, 1889, was a Roman Catholic Priest and missionary. He was known for […]

Our readings today are full of joy and rejoicing. By proposing the figure of Saint John, the Baptist, the Gospel reminds us that full adherence to the Christian vocation, the […]

Many years ago in Paris there was a boy called Paul Claudel, He was from a very good family and he was very intelligent. He was also nominally a catholic,  […]

Thomas John Barnardo (4 July 1845 – 19 September 1905) was an Irish-born, Christian philanthorpist and founder and director of homes for poor and deprived children. From the foundation of the first Bernardo’s […]