Genealogy is all the rage. There are plenty of websites and search companies to help: some search birth and death, migration and marriage, council and electoral records for you; others even investigate your DNA.
Why the reading for the Annunciation five days out from the Nativity.
The recent sale of Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia for a record $A591M drew renewed attention to all Leonardo’s works.
Episode 8 is coming. When I was your age, in my last year of school, “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away”, the first Star Wars film was released.
She's fat! Fat with child. She's only young and yet there's an eight-and-a-half month baby on board. Her friends call her Mazza. Boyfriend Joe.
The Season of Advent has been celebrated since around the fourth century AD when Christmas was fixed on 25 December.
On the centenary of the apparitions at Lourdes, Pope Pius XII published his encyclical Le Pelegrinage de Lourdes from which I would like to quote a few lines…
Consider the names in the Roman Canon – a fraction of the saints only, but a kind of roll-call of stand-out figures in the early Church: apostles, popes, virgins, men and women saints, mostly martyrs, some gruesomely so.
Graham Greene’s 1940 novel The Power and the Glory was the first literary treatment of the priesthood that I can recall reading in my school days.
It was only in the totalitarian twentieth century, in which crueller things were done by the rulers of the earth, on a larger scale and with more devilish refinement, than ever before in human history, that Pope Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King.
“So, what do you do?” It’s the great conversation starter, especially with a stranger whose temperament and history is unknown, indeed when you’re not even sure if you’re sitting beside a terrorist.
A 17-month-old baby, a dozen children, a pregnant woman and mother of five, and three generations from one family, were among the 26 killed in a shooting spree at a Texas church this week.
