Focus

Strengthening the Family through Word and Eucharist

Jul 04, 2019

When the family gets together, the two things they do most are: eat and talk. This is especially so when long-scattered family members are reunited on festive or special occasions.
Is Francis our first charismatic pope?

Jun 28, 2019

When Pope Francis joined 6,000 people in Rome on June 8 for the launch on Pentecost eve of a new Vatican body to serve the 115 million charismatic Cat
Treatment of the poor is best indicator of social model

Jun 13, 2019

Pope Francis addressed Romania’s authorities, members of civil society and diplomatic corps on May 31 morning, shortly after arriving in the capital, Bucharest.
Blesseds showed exemplary faith

Jun 13, 2019

On his last day in Romania, Pope Francis visited the city of Blaj, in Transylvania. The highlight of his visit in the morning was the beatification of seven Romanian Greek-Catholic bishops. The pontiff used the occasion to slam the ongoing cultural “colonisation” and oppose the “new ideologies” that “devalue the person, life, marriage and the family [. . .] with alienating proposals as atheistic as those of the past”, which deny especially young people their cultural and religious roots, and make everything irrelevant “unless it serves our immediate interests”.
Veni Sancte Spiritus

May 30, 2019

The liturgy of Pentecost includes one of the more striking medieval texts in the Roman Missal, Veni Sancte Spiritus, or Come Holy Spirit.
Forgiveness through the Spirit

May 30, 2019

Some things happen in a blaze of splendour like a fireworks display. Others are as simple and sweet as a smooth stone being slipped into a still summer lake. Such was the deceptive quietness of Ruby’s calm remark, one Easter morning.
Eucharistic intimacy calls us to transform a destructive food system

May 25, 2019

When a priest offers the prayer to thank God for the “work of human hands,” during the sacrament of Eucharist, it “includes Christ’s memory of enslave
Pope Francis pays tribute to Jean Vanier

May 18, 2019

Christian philosopher, writer and humanist Jean Vanier, an ardent advocate for the most marginalized by society, died on 7 May aged 90. Pope Francis paid tribute to him as he travelled back to the Vatican after a three-day apostolic visit to the Balkan nations of Bulgaria and North Macedonia.
In ‘Happy’ Bhutan, PM turns a doctor on Saturdays

May 18, 2019

It’s Saturday in Bhutan and Lotay Tshering (pic) has just completed urinary bladder repair surgery on a patient at the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital.
Heresy accusation letter, deconstructed

May 11, 2019

Let’s take on one of the indictments of Francis, so you can get a flavour of what is wrong here: “A Christian believer can have full knowledge of a divine law and voluntarily choose to break it in a serious matter, but not be in a state of mortal sin as a result of this action.”