Focus
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Not the Montessori Method: the Scientific Method
Jul 26, 2018
Maybe, the above intrigues, pleases, shocks the reader. Maybe, all at the same time. Maybe, we are willing to be sold on the idea that the Method is interesting and has valuable things to bring to the table.
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Montessori schools are exceptionally successful
Jul 20, 2018
Montessori schools feature mixed-age classrooms that look the same everywhere in the world because everything in the environment has been thought out for very specific reasons.
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How getting older — and feeling invisible — is preparing me for the kingdom of God
Jul 13, 2018
It is strange to feel invisible. I don’t remember exactly when it began to happen. The only thing I know is that I am not seen much anymore when I walk by people on the street. It is a little discomfiting, a little bittersweet.
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Chinese evangelical Christians in Rome, in memory of the martyrs
Jul 06, 2018
The communities chose the Circus Maximus for their first European public event that celebrates the apostles Peter and Paul 1950 years after their martyrdom. An apostolic impetus that also looks to the Old Continent as a “mission land.”
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What the World Cup can teach us about everything
Jun 22, 2018
It is upon us again. Four long years have passed, and now the 21st World Cup, hosted in Russia, is being broadcast around the world in dozens of languages.
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The suicide epidemic and a message for a hopeless world
Jun 22, 2018
Suicide is rarely caused by a “single factor,” but contributing causes may include relationship problems, recent or upcoming crises, health, financial, housing and legal problems, and substance abuse.
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Pope appeals that World Cup helps promote peace
Jun 22, 2018
As 32 nations get ready to vie for the World Cup in Russia, Pope Francis greeted players, organisers and soccer fans who will be following “this event that overcomes all borders.”
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Lateran University introduces distance learning programme
Jun 08, 2018
The Pontifical Lateran University chair for the Theology of the People of God will soon be offering a distance learning programme to English speakers.
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First-ever layperson appointed as rector of the Pontifical Lateran University
Jun 08, 2018
In another historic step to assign key positions in the Catholic Church to lay people, Pope Francis has appointed a married layman, Vincenzo Buonomo, as the new rector of the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome.
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WCC official credits Pope for leading the way in ecumenism
Jun 08, 2018
There is now much more space and willingness for meaningful cooperation beyond theological dialogues among churches, says Pastor Martin Robra.
Sunday Reflection
Fifth Sunday of Easter: Behold, I make all things new
It was extraordinary. No one could have ever expected it to happen. People whom the Jewish people normally referred to as the dogs, the gentiles, were listening to the preaching of Jewish missionaries and were flocking to become members of the New Way, the Way of Jesus Christ.
