'What a wonderful device an apostolic lens might be.'

God's inexhaustible surprises

Every square mile of this planet is holy ground.

Why are some Catholics not allowed to dance during the liturgy?

The importance of Australia's national apology to the Aborigine people

'God's wisdom comes quietly alongside us.'

How readily we conform ourselves to deformities and distortions

According to the Swiss painter Paul Klee, the artist is like the trunk of a tree, drawing up through its roots in the unknown soil below what will bring life to the branches above: leaves, flowers and fruit, a life of which he or she knows nothing. That strikes me as a pretty apt description of the

In the beginning, God ran the grains of the embryonic earth through creating fingers and dreamed a dream: that every one of these grains might become, in Gods love and power, a being capable of reflecting something of the mystery from which it springs; that each grain might become what it is destine

One of the happier aspects of the fall season in the northern hemisphere is the sudden urge we get to plant bulbs. Having just moved into a new home, with a tiny garden that is bravely trying to survive on a layer of builders’ rubble, I have to admit that this urge was accompanied by considera