Christophers Dharma Blog

This month, the French National Assembly has passed a vote by 335 votes for and one against to ban the burqa, the black veil used to  cover the face by a small number of women in the country’s Muslim community. The Upper Chamber in France will take the final vote in September. (more…)

The football finalists in 2006 World Cup Finals were Italy and France. In South Africa, this month they had already suffered ignominious defeats and flown home. The French came home economy class. Such humiliation. (more…)

A BROKEN PROMISE

A broken promise torments time’s heartbeat (more…)

AN INVITATION TO WALK ABOUT WITHIN

I don’t care men and women let you down (more…)

I recall my teenage years working in the office of The Universe, a rather illustrious name for a Roman Catholic weekly newspaper in London’s Fleet Street – the home of the country’s major newspapers and news agencies at the time. Every few weeks,  a formidable man in the Roman Catholic world, Douglas Woodruff, a director of the newspaper and editor of The Tablet, a serious journal reflecting Catholic thought, would visit the office. (more…)