"I come to Cuba as a pilgrim of charity, to confirm my brothers and sisters in the faith and strengthen them in the hope which is born of the presence of God's love in our lives. I carry in my heart the just aspirations and legitimate desires of all...

On Saturday in the late afternoon the Pope paid a courtesy visit to Felipe de Jesus Calderon Hinojosa, president of Mexico. After the meeting, Benedict XVI, accompanied by Archbishop Jose Guadalupe Martin Rabago of Leon, appeared on the balcony of...

Pope Benedict XVI has began his twenty-third apostolic trip abroad, which is taking him to Mexico and Cuba. He will remain in Mexico until 26 March from where he will then depart to Cuba. This week I will post quite frequently giving information...

Osama Al Shzliaoy and Trayvon Martin did not know each other. They lived thousands of miles apart. They had different life styles, friends, likes and dislikes. However both of them committed a heinous crime which, it seems,  merited them death, a...

This morning on my way to University a friend phoned saying that Fr Peter was nearing the end. I had dreaded this moment. I went straight to his bedside to pray for him. There were members of his family and a number of friends. I went again around...

Last Saturday I asked whether the winner would be the weather. It turned out that the winners are the people who affirmed once more their sovereignty in a big way. The Nationalists did not just suffer a humiliating defeat. They did not just eat...

I hate winter. I hate rainy days. I hate strong winds. Give me summer anytime; and day. Therefore as you can image this weekend is not my type of weekend. Yesterday I broke my back trying to clean my roof. I had to remove anything which could have...

The family features in the theme of the electoral programmes that both political parties submitted for the local council elections. Both of them are promising that they want to make – albeit in different ways – our localities as family friendly as...

If Christmas is the season to be jolly, is Lent the season to be gloomy? There was a similar mentality regarding fasting during the time of Christ. Fasting was to be accompanied by a gloomy face – perhaps not the exact words, but that was the drift...

Another non-debate lit up the news cycle in the last couple of weeks. Of all orphanages in the world, one in Ethiopia run by Maltese nuns, on the advice of the Archbishop Cremona, is giving babies for adoption only to married couples. Horror of...