I cringed when I heard a father ask his child last week: “Would you like to go home with that man?”

IT would be an understatement to say that the Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Very Rev Robert McCarthy, is unafraid of controversy.

AS a child I was particularly chilled by the story of Pandora’s Box. In Greek mythology Pandora and her husband Epimetheus are visited by Jupiter’s messenger, Mercury, who gives them a box for safe keeping.

WHY should a bell be shaped like a bullet, you might ask, as you exit from the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi.