by David Torkington | Dec 24, 2019 | A Sideways Look at the Christian Faith
Of the whole gamut of myths, legends and fairy tales that have been told in human history, not even the most outrageous or outlandish can compare with the message that we can so easily take for granted. It is the message first delivered to poor shepherds as they...
by David Torkington | Sep 26, 2019 | A Sideways Look at the Christian Faith
I am as delighted as all other orthodox Catholics that the Spanish Bishops have spoken out against all forms of prayer involving Eastern meditation techniques and the mindfulness movement in their document, My Soul Thirsts for God, for the Living God: A Doctrinal...
by David Torkington | Feb 16, 2019 | A Sideways Look at the Christian Faith
If I had not been working for several organisations in the USA for the past six years I might have thought Archbishop Vigano’s letters referred to in the Catholic media, as way over the top, but they are not. The central point that he was making about a...
by David Torkington | Jan 7, 2019 | A Sideways Look at the Christian Faith
This is the first year that I did not have a Christmas Card from Sr Wendy Beckett. Instead I had a little note from Sr Stephanie, the Prioress of the Carmelite monastery at Quidenham to say that her health was failing, but that she was happy and at peace. She died on...
by David Torkington | Nov 18, 2018 | A Sideways Look at the Christian Faith
Since the age of eight my closest friend was, what later came to be called ‘gay’, although the word did not exist in those days. All I knew was that he was, and always has been my best friend, not least because we were complimentary to each other, but...
by David Torkington | Jul 1, 2018 | A Sideways Look at the Christian Faith
Last week I introduced you to Franz Stampfl, my athletics coach when I was a boy. When transposed from the sporting life to the spiritual life his teaching taught me more about how to progress spiritually than any spiritual director whom I have even known. I make no...
