Following the recent NATO Summit, Metropolitan Archbishop of Naples, † Don Mimmo Battaglia, issued a powerful reflection after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan presented commemorative firearms to NATO leaders as…
I am sure I am not alone in being horrified and appalled by what is happening in Gaza, and sadly, increasingly in the West Bank. Hamas’ violent attack on Israeli…
Nearly two weeks ago, I woke to the headline that the former president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, had been taken into police custody and was on his way to…
As I watch the services for former President Carter I ask the question ‘What will history say about our present world leaders?” This year marks eighty years since the foundation…
I woke up on November 6, 2024, hardly daring to breathe. Turning with trepidation to my mobile’s incessant notifications, my heart sank with the realization of my worst US election…
I am an avid reader of The Guardian Weekly which arrives in our letter box every Friday and so updates me on what is happening in distant and not so…
It began when I was seven years old. Glued to the television on Saturday afternoons I would watch ABC’s Wide World of Sports. My excitement mounted as the broadcaster announced…
Advent 2023 was a different one for me. Against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian war wreaking unimaginable devastation on already bereft people, the ongoing violence in the Ukraine, Myanmar, and…
September 11. Memories of that fateful day when horrific terrorist attacks forever changed the lives of thousands of people reverberate still in global consciousness. The 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan was…