Apparently, one of the signs of getting old is moaning about the overall demise of the world and claiming that it was better in the past. I think it’s nonsense but – truly – music was much better in the 1980s than now… Another thing that was better in the past is quite a specific attitude in football. When a…

It was a meteoric rise, from zero to hero – or to 362 subscribers (to be precise) in a few weeks. That number could be legitimately multiplied by 2 or 3 as a big chunk of the audience likely consisted of families rather than individuals. As a little-known local priest in a relatively insignificant city parish, who had regularly lulled…

An American actor with a cringe-worthy Scottish accent provided an entire generation of Scots with visuals and a battle cry supporting their cause for an independent Scotland. The 1995 film “Braveheart” was a massive success because of the gripping way it told the story of William Wallace, but also because it had a very clear main thread: freedom. Even those…

I doubt that anyone here remembers that in my sermon delivered half a year ago, on Sunday of the Holy Family, I referred to the James Webb Space Telescope. At that time, it was very topical (it had just been launched into space) and I found the story of its creation a useful analogy for the subject of my sermon.…