Life is too damn short, I think! Lost in dreams very late one night, in the peaceful company of a beautiful August moon, I asked myself: 'Are times better now or were we happier in the good old...

With each 'upgrading' at the Stock Exchange, the small man seems worse off. Not so long ago it was easy to read the selling/buying prices and amounts of shares on offer in print. This has changed. Now...

Five weeks before Germany's parliamentary elections, the Iron Lady of Germany and Europe, Angela Merkel, has been jolted with an opinion poll showing a 10 percentage point slide in her personal...

Seventy-five years ago, precisely on 30th June, 1942, in the middle of the Second World War II, Saint Leopold Mandic died in Padua. Saint Leopold became known as the Apostle of Confession and of...

One of my favourite authors is A.J. Cronin. In Keys of the Kingdom, an atheist doctor works alongside a priest helping the poor and the sick, and after the doctor died, the priest said: “I know...

After a chaotic first six months in office, the President of the United States of America has vowed to keep turning to social media for support. However, Donald Trump’s presidency, which he so...

What the Hon. Marlene Farrugia, supposedly leader of the PD, said in court during the hearing of the case instituted by the PL against the extra two seats given to the PN by the electoral commission,...

Two days before feast of the Assumption of Mary on 15 August, one feels duty-bound to celebrate the power of this simple and effective Marian prayer – the Rosary, which some call...

Many of us want and desire internal peace. But how can we live peacefully when we feel that we are being treated unfairly? If not persecuted? In one of the Novena days preceding the feast of...

Three weeks ago, I visited Pompeii, the famous ancient Roman city which, together with Herculaneum and Stabiae, was tragically destroyed by tons of molten ash, pumice and sulphuric gas. The city...