“My husband worked hard all his life to provide for his family and he has now given his life to save our daughter.” These are the words of Emma Jane Pearson, wife of Simon Pearson, who drowned in Italy barely ten days ago as he saved his 11-year old daughter from...

Patience is a virtue, possess it if you can; found seldom in a woman but never in a man! I remember my mother reciting that to my father with a certain glee whenever he would get impatient with some job or other around the house. I got it, too, when...

We say that words are ten a penny. But that depends on who’s saying them. It also depends on what the words are about. Sad to say, we live in a time when the words of politicians and other public figures cannot always be trusted. In recent times, people have...

Early last year a relative of mine died and I was asked to do the funeral. The night before the funeral, as you know, the coffin is often brought to the church. There used to be the custom in my home parish that, after the coffin was received, the priest...

I remember once at a UN meeting in Geneva, a delegate from a Western country proposed a redefinition of the family. Rather than basing family relations on flesh and blood, she said, the family should be based on relations of economic dependence. I recall taking the microphone and saying that this new definition meant...