Born in 1948 in what was then Czechoslovakia, he converted to Catholicism at the age of 18 and was secretly ordained a priest in communist-controlled East Germany in 1978. Father Halik worked for many ...
A church, said Victor Hugo, is "a book in stone." And what —on Easter Sunday or any other Sunday — do we read there? Consider a Gothic cathedral like Notre-Dame, which also happens to be the very ...