There is a major defect in my intellectual make-up which it is time I admitted to: it’s not just that I don’t understand philosophy – any of it; I don’t even understand what it is about or why anyone would engage in it. I’m not proud of this: it is a pretty serious flaw for …
Soul or Spirit
I have some rather weird habits which have been known to reduce fellow priests to tears of laughter, and would probably be of interest to a psychiatrist. For example, I have about 200 pictures of saints stuck on to the glass fronts of my bookshelves, and visitors have to guess the principle on which they …
Refugee Tales
One of my great joys this past year has been welcoming into our large Notting Hill parish house (15 decent size rooms with sink, reviews on Trip Advisor welcome!) three refugees from different countries through the agency of the wonderful Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) based in East London. One of the side-effects of the COVID …
A holy face
Recently I was trawling through the Catholic news websites in search of some good news to counteract the general gloom and doom, and once I’d scrolled past the usual bunch of ‘Pope says Mass,’ ‘Bishop thinks prayer is a good thing,’ kind of headlines, I found my attention grabbed not so much by the headline …
