Prague 26 January (ČTK) - Cardinal Dominik Duka hopes that the newly elected President Milos Zeman will strengthen the unity of the nation and will positively represent the Czech Republic abroad. According to Duka, the elections have shown that people consider the role of the presidency to be very significant. [...]
Members and Friends of the Czech Catholic Mission in California congratulate Bishop Peter Esterka on 50 years of priesthood and service to the people of God. We wish him health and happiness for many more years and thank him for his pastoral spirit and loving presence.
Author: George Gracko, Katolicky tydenik, 2013/4 What exactly is faith? How can I keep it and how lose it? Such issues as these are at the heart of the Year of faith. PETER P. Prokop Siostrzonek.Prior of the Břevnov Benedictine monastery, reflects on these and some other problems. God often [...]
Today (9/11) is Bishop Esterka's 13th anniversary of ordination as bishop. It happened in Brno on September 11, 1999, and coincided with what would have been his father, Paul's, 90th birthday.
An improbable interview on Vatican Radio Fr. Josef Kolacek S.J. meets P. Antonin Zgarbik S.J. A distant bell tolling JK „I am the grave-digger here at Velehrad in South Moravia. I have been here for forty years, but I have never before had to put earth on an empty grave [...]
Passing through the barb-wired fences, In the middle of the dark night, With people chasing you. Thinking to yourself, Faster, Faster, Faster. Will I ever see my family again? Wondering what freedom is like. Not ever knowing if you’ll find it. Also thinking, why are people chasing me? I just [...]
Fr. Jan Bula was born June 24, 1920, in Lukov by Moravian Budejovic. He completed theological studies in Brno and was ordained a priest on July 29, 1945. From 1945-1951 he was pastor in Rokytnice. In 1951, during a show trial he was unjustly accused of treason and condemned to [...]
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 [...]
