Part Six – The Sword of Suffering Our Lady’s teaching on prayer has always been the same. It is the same teaching that she taught
Part Five – Our Lady and Mystical Contemplation Everyone has experienced what it feels like to be captivated by a wonderous landscape or a gloriously
Part Four – A New Type of Temple Our Lady would have known that God was referred to as a Father in the Old Testament and
Part Three -The Immaculate Conception Most scripture scholars would say that Our Lady was born about fifteen or sixteen years before Christ was born, but
Part 2 – Garabandal and the Eucharist The Greek Philosopher, Plato, said that although we have emerged from being cave dwellers, built great cities to
Part 1: The Fatima Secret We did not have a youth club in our parish so when I heard there was a thriving club in
If you are travelling to a distant destination you will have to travel by car or coach, by train or ‘plane by ship or space
That such a highly educated layman with more Catholic credentials than I ever came across before should make such a statement, simply poleaxed me. He
A hermit I know used to say, “When you stop falling you will be in heaven, but when you stop getting up, you will be
Of the whole gamut of myths, legends and fairy tales that have been told in human history, not even the most outrageous or outlandish can
My book ‘The Primacy of Loving’ is being published in the UK on the 9th of December and in the USA on the 1st of
Of course, I can’t remember being conceived nor growing into a baby in my mother’s womb. Nor for that matter do I remember being baptised
What do we do here and now to live the spirituality that Christ first gave us? Do we need Christ to come again? No, because
Forty years ago I was challenged by a Canoness. I had just finished a weekend course on personal prayer at the retreat centre that I ran
Voltaire once said that God created man in his own image and likeness and man has returned the compliment. Although first fervour or first enthusiasm
When something big is about to happen, and I mean really big and important, God has a habit of choosing the person we would not
My doctor has always believed that the Irish are in fact one of the lost tribes of Israel. I always took his conviction with a
From the beginning of its arrival into the Catholic Church in the 1960’s its leadership have always insisted that Charismatic renewal is not new, indeed
At the dawn of Christianity when new converts, mainly Jews, asked about the Messiah whom they had not met in person, they were introduced to
Many of the great theologians and scripture scholars who preceded and had such an influence on the Second Vatican Council had for historical reasons been
Dean Swift, the author of Gulliver’s Travels said that we have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love
One of the most surprising truths that I learnt when I first started to study scripture was that there is no record of Christ going
