wrote 1 day ago: In this first week after Pentecost, three dioceses in the Netherlands are gearing up to ordain three … more →
wrote 6 days ago: Last month I wrote about a curious manifesto from the hands of a group of professors who criticised … more →
wrote 1 week ago: At a European conference on the emancipation of homosexuals in The Hague, an Amsterdam alderman has … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Last week, American social media evangelist and orthodox Catholic Michael Voris visited the Netherla … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: “The act of adoration outside Mass prolongs and intensifies all that takes place during the li … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: In the run-up to tomorrow’s inauguration of King Willem Alexander there has been much attentio … more →
wrote 4 weeks ago: A few days before the abdication of Queen Beatrix and the inauguration of King Willem-Alexander and … more →
wrote 4 weeks ago: Many hope that Pope Francis will undertake something of an overhaul of the Roman Curia, to bring it … more →
wrote 1 month ago: “Christ is everything for me, the centre of my life, from Baptism to death. He is the personif … more →
wrote 1 month ago: A group of professors (retired and otherwise) in the Netherlands have joined forces and written a ma … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Bishop Jan Liesen, eleventh bishop of Breda, released the following statement on the death of his pr … more →
wrote 1 month ago: These days this blog certainly gives the impression of being preoccupied with death. But, then again … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Yet another conflict erupts in the Diocese of ‘s Hertogenbosch as the diocese removes a priest … more →
wrote 1 month ago: As the registration closed on 5 April, some 300 young Catholics from the Netherlands had signed up f … more →
wrote 1 month ago: No April Fool’s joke, the announcement made by Father Leendert Spijkers on Easter Sunday: gran … more →
wrote 2 months ago: It’s a bit late, but since there is an interest in it, here is the schedule for the Holy Week … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Two days ago I wrote about the three weeks that Bishop Jos Punt lived as a hermit in Spain. Yesterda … more →
wrote 2 months ago: In little over an hour, the cardinal electors will make their way to the Sistine Chapel, and then th … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Amid all the excitement pertaining to the concave and a new Pope comes a sobering report. The Deetma … more →