Last Wednesday night at Holy Family Church, Bishop Hugh addressed nineteen young people gathered with their families to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation. He compared the event to an individual Pentecost. Still, he advised them not to get disappointed if there were no spectacular tangible signs like those reportedly appearing at the first outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Jerusalem…

It took an apple (the fruit, not the electronic device) and an inquisitive mind to “discover” a force to which we all owe our existence. According to legend, Sir Isaac Newton was enlightened by an apple falling from a tree on his head; most historians dismiss this, but he was certainly curious about why apples always fall straight to the…

The coronation of King Charles a couple of weeks ago turned out to be quite controversial and even divisive. One of many arguments against it was whether such an ancient Christian ritual makes any sense in 21st-century Britain, a place so diverse on the one hand and increasingly irreligious on the other that it can hardly be called a Christian…

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…