Focus
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Dialogue with indigenous: Understanding that ‘we are simple stewards
Jul 26, 2019
By convening a special synod on the Amazon at the Vatican in October, Pope Francis will be giving greater exposure to the Church’s deep concern for the people and the ecosystem on which they depend.
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Can laypeople lead a parish? Look to Louisville for a thriving example
Jul 18, 2019
In his recent book Worship as Community Drama, sociologist Pierre Hegy described an unusual Catholic parish whose identity he hid under the name Church of the Resurrection.
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A new dimension of Ignatian formation: laypeople training laypeople
Jul 18, 2019
Jim Caccamo, a retired educator and trained Ignatian prayer guide, serves as outgoing executive director of the Ignatian Spirituality Centre (ISC) in Kansas City, USA.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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”.
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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.
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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.
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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
Sunday Reflection
Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time: And Jesus said: “Love Your Enemies”
Hatred kills. There is nothing earth shaking about that statement. Wars demonstrate this. There are people who hate other people and who do everything they can to eliminate the those people.
