Friday March 20th

BUSY LONDON DAYS.....

To central London to meet a small niece from school... We always hugely enjoy time with nieces and nephews, all of whom have given and continue to give endless pleasure. When they are small, Jamie spends a lot of the time swinging them around upside-down and throwing them up in the air...

Current Catholic Herald has a front-page report on the Pope's recent speech about the future of Europe which is very, very interesting and worrylingly to the point. It echoes something he said a few years ago as Cardinal Ratzinger, in an interview with a German journalist:"When any society turns away from fellowship with the liiving God, it cuts the inner roots of its social organism."

Latest issue of AD2000 arrived from Australia this morning - always a good read. Review of Aidan Nicholls' book on "Catholic Thought since the Enlightenment", and a good feature on Christian-Moslem dialgue. There is also a heart-rending letter about the plight of inmates in some of Africa's prisons, with an address to contact through which some help could be given (click on the link and find out more).

We have friends in Australia who are involved in all the exciting preparations for World Youth Day, which tales place in Sydney in 2008....