It is sometimes said that the Church more carefully defines her teaching when it is under threat. In the early years of the Church when...

Many years ago, I remember seeing a programme about the life of the comedian Les Dawson. He was a northern comedian who was famous for...

From Monday to Friday I was up in Leeds for a priests’ retreat led by Sr Briege McKenna. On the Monday evening she put to us a series of...

“Who can this be? Even the wind and the sea obey him.” The sea is one of the most difficult and powerful forces of nature. When the...

I’m not much of a gardener. I have a perhaps superficial interest, but there are lots of things that I don’t know. In my last parish...

Last Sunday, two people had been to visit the presbytery, and after they had gone I sat down to eat. I was about half-way through one...