REALLY, MONSIEUR CHIRAC, YOU ARE A VERY FUNNY MAN! There you were on television, surrounded by young people in a carefully choreographed non-debate, trying to convince all of France to vote in favour of the EU Constitution. You thought you…
THESE ARE WORRYING TIMES FOR SECULARISTS. And for Muslims. And for Christians. And for Europeans in general. There's talk of a crisis of secularism. There's a struggle for the soul of Islam. Churches have been losing their flocks for decades…
WE DON'T HAVE TO AGREE WITH ALL KAROL WOJTYLA STOOD FOR to acknowledge that he was one of history's giants. The second-longest serving pope and the most-travelled by far in history, John Paul II was the first pope to visit…
THE CROSS-FORMED BY TWO INTERSECTING LINES-IS THE SIMPLEST OF ALL SYMBOLS. It has also become the most common of all symbols throughout European society, displayed in countless forms on buildings, books, necks, crowns, ships' sails and graves. The cross appears…
IF YOU WERE NOT WEARING IRISH GREEN LAST THURSDAY, you ran the risk of receiving a friendly pinch or punch from one of the many Irish scattered around the western world. For March 17 was St Patrick's Day. On a…