March 14, 2019
Again and again I find it exciting where the idioms we use actually come from. Of course, I know the ones from the Bible best: "What you [...]
May 13, 2018
Now we're back home, and I'm reviewing the last 3 1/2 days... Unfortunately I didn't get much of the discussions and panels [...]
January 17, 2017
One of my Facebook friends, let's call him Clemens, recently wrote the following: "I need space for new friends. Therefore two rules: 1.) Whoever gets on my nerves [...]
November 15, 2016
The other day, at a large family party, I was talking to a young man, 17 years old, a professed atheist. He told me in amazement about people who go to Tibet [...].
October 30, 2016
Pope Francis has said*: "Luther took a great step when he put the Word of God into the hands of the people." I know the context of this [...]
June 14, 2016
Actually, I didn't want to write anything about the massacre in Orlando. What is there to say? Of course I pray for the victims, the dead, injured and [...]
May 18, 2016
Ask the Sister, Part 25: What is a good person from a Catholic point of view? The starting point for this question was a sentence by Peter Rosegger, which I [...]
May 15, 2016
"When the day of Pentecost had come, everyone was in the same place. Suddenly there came from heaven a roaring, as when a violent storm goes along, and [...].
April 19, 2016
In these days between Easter and Pentecost we read daily the Acts of the Apostles. Last Friday, for example, it was about the conversion of Saul: he persecuted the [...]