A mini-drama at the school gate on the first-timers’ first school day: a sense of abandonment, tears and cries or even tantrums. A tight hug, some consoling words and assurances of coming back in no time usually calm things down. And that’s just the parents… Everyone’s life is marked by milestones; moments or events that significantly change life in one…

Once I visited a baroque church in Poland where my attention was drawn to a picture of the Holy Trinity on the wall.  God the Father was shown as an elderly, majestic man with a full white beard and, on his head, a triple crown resembling the one used by popes before Paul VI. Every time I looked at that…

Did you miss me last Tuesday or Wednesday? I suppose the most common answer to this naff question is “why would I?” Busy with a family life, working and being involved in many important activities, most of you wouldn’t have noticed that virtually all the priests were missing. The reason for our absence was a regular meeting where we gathered…

“An echo chamber is a hollow enclosure used to produce reverberation, usually for recording purposes. For example, the producers of a television or radio program might wish to produce the aural illusion that a conversation is taking place in a large room or a cave; these effects can be accomplished by playing the recording of the conversation inside an echo…