1. My Two Scientology Stories Before I come to this book, let me tell my two Scientology stories. First, I was a university student, walking near Central station with a […]
Read moreAuthor: Fr Yuhanna Azize
Peveril of the Peak
Despite the near-unanimous modern dislike of Sir Walter Scott’s Peveril of the Peak, I utterly enjoyed it, and what is more, I have profited. No novelist I know of matches […]
Read more“Put not your trust in princes …”
The Psalmist had it right in Psalm 146: place your most profound trust in God, not in princes or politicians, or indeed any human being. It does not mean that […]
Read moreMore on the Sugar Plague …
The Sydney Morning Herald’s weekend edition of 17-18 September 2016, had an article titled: “Dramatic changes needed as childhood obesity normalised” (pp. 8-9). Sadly, one in five children in NSW […]
Read morePurgatory
One of the teachings of the Catholic faith, which we Maronites share, and which has always seemed to me to be absolutely true is the doctrine of Purgatory. I have […]
Read moreWhy I Won’t be Reading Harry Potter and the Pitiless Sequels
I won’t be reading the new Harry Potter book for one simple but sufficient reason: the silliness has long outweighed any sympathy I had for Rowling’s characters. The silliness was […]
Read moreA Calling: Part Two
A Calling: Part Two When chapter 6 of Abbot William’s autobiography opens, it is mid-1951, and he has joined the Trappist abbey at Spencer. He writes about the spiritual path […]
Read moreSt Charbel
St Charbel, Third Sunday of July Born Youssef Makhlouf in Beqa Kafra on 8 May 1828, he was the fifth child in a family of simple farmers. When he was […]
Read moreThe Massabki Brothers
The Massabki brothers, Francis, Abdel Moati and Raphael, were Maronite martyrs, slain in Damascus in 1860 in part of a dramatic anti-Christian uprising in Syria and Lebanon from April to […]
Read moreThe Institution of the Eucharist
The journal Universitas, issued by the Jesuit-run Fu Jen University in Taiwan, has kindly published my article entitled “The Institution of the Eucharist in the Gospel of John, the Didache […]
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