Whatever the outcome of the upcoming ‘Fair Pay’ referendum in Switzerland, a healthy debate about the growing inequality between the top and bottom salary earners has been triggered across this nation of high earners. On Sunday, the Swiss will decide…
For the thousands of tourists who gather daily in front of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, one of Christianity’s unique gifts to humankind–compassion for the poor–can be seen in graphic detail. The Portal of the Last Judgement is the west…
A good thing about crises is that they force us back to essential questions. They compel us to rethink our priorities, retrace our assumptions and re-examine our foundations. So a serious multi-fronted crisis may be exactly what Europe has needed…
Europe ignored Africa to her own peril. That was the clear message in The Hague on Friday evening from Nobel Prize winner Frederik de Klerk, who oversaw with Nelson Mandela the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa. Europe needed…
That stage of life when one starts attending more funerals than weddings was passed long ago for my wife and me. But this week was exceptionally busy with three ceremonies to honour the deceased. Funerals, like weddings, are occasions when…
