FEBRUARY 22, 2010

PRAYER FOR LENT -Pope Benedict Xvi begins his seven-day spiritual exercises with a prayer that Lent be a time lived "with joy and fruit…"
A PROMISE UNFULFILLED - One year since a power sharing agreement was signed by Zimbabwe’s ruling party and the former opposition, not much seems to have changed in the impoverished and oppressed Nation…
"SHERLOCK HOLMES" - Film critic Peter Malone talks about a 21^st century interpretation of , a somewhat scruffy, bare-knuckle fighter, Sherlock Holmes, whose brain is always at work…
A TIME OF JOY - And Father Jim Brand reflects on the practices of Lent and in particular on fasting, a form of penance – he says - you must never let become somebody else’s purgatory...