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.
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.
One of the most recognisable songs in the cult-classic movie Back to the Future is ‘The Power of Love’, by Huey Lewis and the News. It reached No. 1 in the charts here in Australia in 1985. I’m not sure if it’s on today’s hymn list…
One of the most recognisable songs in the cult-classic movie Back to the Future is “The Power of Love”, by Huey Lewis and the News.
Our epistle this morning (1Thess 1:1-5) may have seemed little more than a formal g’day and list of acknowledgments like my greeting at the start of Mass. Yet these were in fact the very first words ever written for the New Testament.
Jesuits make great martyrs and Martin Scorsese’s long-awaited and recently-released film, Silence, is a confronting glimpse of one period of Jesuit heroism and betrayal.
