LITTLE Tony in India is now 11 and has been savagely challenged since birth; tiny right arm, no left arm, a wobbly little left leg and no right leg.
THE young Father lies in his vestments in the glass coffin. His stole is purple with the gold design of his beliefs braided into the fabric.
I MET Cardinal Sean Brady on Sunday a week back. He was the main man at the celebrations of St Oliver Plunkett in Dundalk and I was there making the Nationwide programme.
I RECENTLY rewrote the story of the Good Samaritan.
I HAVE 16 grandchildren and I have had 16 grandchildren ever since the moment when, under a south eastern sky, the egg embraced the sperm and little Molly was alive, miniscule life I grant you, embryonic life but vibrant and growing life, growing by the second, pulsating with the power of the universe of her being.
THE payout last week by the Catholic Church in Ireland of quarter a million marks a new low in the matter of the abuse perpetrated by Brendan Smyth.
AT last someone in Glenree House has blown the whistle on what many of the staff believe to be an oppressive and bullying management ethos within the Department of Agriculture in Newry.
I FELT unclean this week speaking my customary greeting of salutation, that wonderful word of Hebrew origin, “Shalom”, used as a greeting of peace.
MAURICE Fitzpatrick and I stand at a frontier of Catholicism in the modern world.
SHALOM my friends. I am back in north west Nigeria.