The Catholic Weekly 01/2012 Five nuns cared for Vaclav Havel until his last moments. In the week before Christmas we met up with one of them, Sr. VERITAS Holíková, who gives testimony to the ex-president's death. How is it that your order - Sisters of Charles Boromeo– were chosen to care [...]
Instead of my own comments I‘d like to share with you these thoughts of the former secretary of the Czech Bishops Conference. Psychologists tell us that modern humans suffer from various kinds of anxiety and fear: fear of illness, aging, unemployment, inflation and rising prices, and therefore display irritability and [...]
Saint John Neumann never aspired to be a Bishop of the Church. When Archbishop Kenrick of Baltimore told him that he was being talked about as the great possibility and probability of being appointed the fourth Bishop Philadelphia, St John Neumann begged him to tell the Pope and the Vatican [...]
by Maria Peterka April 2011 We’re off! And where are we going? That doesn’t matter. The main thing is, that we are going. We have to get away from the daily routine. So, we’re off. When? As soon as possible! Now? Not yet. I’ll be waiting in the car. When [...]
