‘The Good Old Days.’ That’s an expression that brings to mind lovely memories of the (usually distant) past when everything was better than it is now. It’s a verbal and mental remedy that’s employed to soothe the uncertainties and anxieties of the here-and-now as well as of the future. Yet in fact the nostalgia of ‘The Good Old Days’ is…

Last weekend I had quite an interesting conversation at the dinner table. The topic put forward for discussion by my guest was a rather pessimistic view of the world order, where a small number of big companies are on the point of taking over control of the entire global market, from commodities to the food chain. Governments will become servile…

Thanks to a stroke of extremely good luck combined with similarly extreme gesture of generosity, I’ve recently had the pleasure of watching an international football match from the stands. It was a welcome distraction that offered me the chance to have a mental rest from the very intensive and occasionally overwhelmingly busy time I’ve had ever since the beginning of…

That story began when I was seven years old – or forty years ago, if you prefer to put it that way. Two man-made spacecrafts were launched into space in the August and September of 1977. Perhaps you may remember the old Mini Cooper – that’s one of those was roughly the weight and size of each spacecraft. Yet these…

How did it come about that you are a believer, a Christian, a Catholic? Some of you will have been born into a Catholic family; some of you will have been raised as Catholics; some of you will have become Catholics later in life. These are the three main avenues, but undoubtedly there are many roads that each one of…