In a couple of days Lent will kick off. Many people, even non-believers, will start it in the traditional way by consuming pancakes on Tuesday. Polish people actually followed their traditions and started last Thursday, eating piles of doughnuts – the ones I had were delicious. Combining those two traditions gives me two excuses to devour a lot of savoury…

Last Sunday in my sermon I claimed that Jesus’ main job wasn’t healing people of their sicknesses. It seems that today’s gospel is contrary to that statement of mine, as we can see a leper cured by the Lord. Perhaps you know that the last person in the whole universe to own up his own mistake is a clergyman. So…

In recent weeks a book has been published: the writer declares himself to be an atheist but, unlike his militant ‘brothers in arms’, he can see many useful aspects that religion as a whole provides to the life of an individual or the life of a community. He proposes the adoption of many religious elements like sacraments, assemblies and so…

On 17 December 2011 a young jobless postgraduate in a provincial Tunisian city set fire to himself in protest against a lawless action of the local police against him. Until that day, unpunished and corrupt officers along with local officials had abused their authority. They got away with it because the whole country was governed in an authoritarian way. The…

I bet some of you here remember those days when this church was packed full every Sunday. Within one generation the number of people regularly attending Mass has more than halved. It’s not been happening only within the Catholic Church; some Christian denominations are even in bigger trouble. Some churches have been desolated because of the dramatic decrease of local…