I’ve recently been to my home town to visit my mum. Once it was a strategically important railway hub and military area; now it’s a small, unimportant town. Once it was a playground for an interested kid, nowadays it’s just a place of blurred memories. I left the town when I finished college and actually I’ve never really returned to…

I have to make a confession, perhaps ruining my career and drawing the condemnation of many: I don’t wear any holy symbol around my neck; I don’t have a crucifix or a prayer card in my car; I haven’t put any holy pictures on the walls in my house. When I look around I can see that my surroundings and…

During last Lent two groups of people were gathering once a week at St Peter’s and St Mary’s for a series of meetings pretentiously called biblical studies. Week by week, meeting by meeting I tried to deprive the participants of their faith; in this regard I was apparently unsuccessful. I missed ten football matches of the Champions League as they…