May opened with a grand display of ritual; people in ‘funny clothes’ heldcaptive to tradition as a crown was placed on the head of a man in England.Millions watched, mildly embarrassed that they were actually enjoying a showthat seemed to have no relevance to real life. May closed for some hundreds ofus as we watched a graduation ceremony at Arrupe ...
I bought this postcard of the tympanum over the door of the cathedral of St Trophime in Arles, in the south of France, in 1964. This twelfth century sculpture shows Jesus enthroned, surrounded by the four living creatures of Revelation (4:6-8) who, from the time of Irenaeus in the second century, came to represent the four gospels. The whole semi-circular ...
What a spectacle it was! Millions watched the crowning of King Charles III and the question arises; why were they drawn to an event that belongs to a bygone age? What has such a ceremony to do with a Britain struggling with a faltering economy? Everyone has a different answer to the question; ‘What did you like about it?’ One ...
A dog is a dog and maybe we do not think much more about it. There are big dogs, like Alsatians, and small ones, like fox terriers. But dogs are dogs and they are just there – part of the environment, maybe making visitors or intruders think twice before approaching a house, but not much more. There is, however, one ...
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