Dun Giljan's Blog

The celebration of All Souls follows that of All Saints. Today thousands of people visit cemeteries to pay their last respects towards their...

Johann König - All Saints The church celebrates today the Solemnity of  All Saints.  This paintings shows Jesus presiding over a gathering o...

Stan Musial meeting Pope John Paul II in 1999. One of the most beloved baseball players ever to play in the USA was Stan Musial. He played f...

A Filipino worker at a bamboo treatment centre B amboo appears to have remarkable qualities of seismic resistance. Now it's being used t...

Al altarcito , a memorial for loved ones deceased. As we approach the celebration of All Souls' Day — a special day to commemorate our l...

                     Two separated hands with all the muscle power can’t beat 100 people. Yet two folded palms with no muscle power but with...

When a group of teenagers were asked what their mother did during the day, their answers were quite surprising: watches TV, plays the LOTTO,...

Pope Francis always had a statue on his desk of St Joseph sleeping. This may sound strange, but the Pope claims that even when he is asleep,...

Sophia Forchas and her neurosurgeon Dr. Galicich. Twelve-year-old Sophia Forchas is finally home — after spending 57 days in the hospital wi...

                     These are three photos of animals in unusual postures. The first photo is mine, when I took this photo of a chipmunk pr...

Another flashback from my past  – from my journals..... Between 1991 and 1996 I was Associate Pastor at St. Anthony of Padua, Rocky Point, N...

We celebrate today the liturgical feast of one whom we can call the Man of the 20th century . Pope Saint John Paul II was born Karol Wojtyl...

One of the churches on Tinos island, Greece. The small island of Tinos in the Aegean Sea, Greece claims to have 1000 chapels spread around t...

The Benedictine friar Blessed Hermann of Reichenau 1013-1054) was born with a cleft palate, cerebral palsy  and spina bifida. However he had...

Today at the Vatican, along with a few other Blesseds, Bartolo Longo will be canonized. Unbelievably, he was a satanist as a young man, even...

Christ the King Catholic church, Nuuk, Greenland The island of Greenland, which has only parish and is run and governed by Denmark, has an a...

Once again going back to my black-and-white photography period, I share three more photos from the 1970s. The first one shows a young boy lo...

Once again I’m happy to share with you   as I go through my collection of black and white photos, which I tend to appreciate even more now, ...

'Ecstasy of St Teresa' by Bellini, in Santa Maria della Vittoria. A great Carmelite mystic and nun, today we celebrate the feast of ...

As we see the people of Gaza and Palestine return to their homes, whatever was left of them, our hearts go out to them as they try to rebuil...

I know this may seem like a Christmas message and I just found myself celebrating the festive season, but this is a celebration of Peace on ...

W hy do we have wide open streets and closed minds? Why do we spend more and have fun less? Why do we have more experts, and yet many mo...

Although few people had as great an impact on the 20th century as Pope St. John XXIII, he avoided the limelight as much as possible. The fir...

My love with photography started when I was in the Seminary, from around 1970. I first had an Instamatic camera, that led to a Petri single-...

The entire world is rejoicing as everyone welcomed the breakthrough in the Hamas-Israeli war that has raged for the past 2 years. The United...

The present Mdina Cathedral designed by Lorenzo Gafa' The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Paul, commonly known as St. Paul's Cathedr...