Focus
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The synod's priorities are communion, participation, mission — not who can be priests
Sep 22, 2023
According to the media, the most important issues facing the Synod on Synodality are the possibility of married priests, women deacons and the blessing of gay couples.
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The Synod? “It must succeed, otherwise it will be a disaster”
Sep 22, 2023
The concerns are all the greater because some people in Rome are having trouble grasping the contours of this great reflection on the future of the Catholic Church.
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Is opposition to the Synod rooted in a mistrust of the Holy Spirit?
Sep 22, 2023
Pope Francis has been the subject of what seems like unrelenting criticism for several years.
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Small parish community embodies synodal journey
Sep 22, 2023
The recent parish feast day celebration at the Church of Our Lady of Good Health in Parit Buntar, Perak was a time of festivity, prayer, and thanksgiving for the parishioners.
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Pope Francis’ six great moments in Mongolia
Sep 15, 2023
Here is a round-up of Pope Francis’ trip to Mongolia, a central Asian country with around 1,500 Catholics.
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Mongolians express pride in hosting Pope Francis
Sep 15, 2023
Pope Francis had one of the most unusual popemobile tours of his decade-long pontificate in Mongolia when he entered an ice hockey arena in the capital, Ulaanbaatar, for a Mass with the country’s tiny Catholic community.
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Holy Father finds his ideal Church in Mongolia
Sep 15, 2023
During his Sept 1-4 visit, Francis encountered what he has consistently portrayed as an ideal form of Church — a Church at the peripheries of the world, as he likes to call it, in a country where Catholics are only a tiny minority. But numbers, he told them, don’t matter.
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Lessons from my 50-year career in adult faith formation
Sep 08, 2023
faith formation Beyond burnouts: Moving from profession to vocation 2. Adults desire to appropriate the faith in a way that is consistent with their lived experience, linking faith to the reality of their everyday lives
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Beyond burnouts: Moving from profession to vocation
Sep 08, 2023
In the process of this vocation, every step in it, even painful ones, are nothing but reminders of this call. This way, burnout experiences become reminders of the call.
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Transforming young lives through football
Sep 01, 2023
The Little Flower Football Academy in Kerala, India has transformed many young lives from the coastal belts of Trivandrum and Kanyakumari.
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Sunday Reflection
God is not like us
God is beyond us. That is what the readings point to this weekend. The fact that God is a mystery and beyond our thinking is not something that should frustrate or disappoint us but, rather, it should be a source of our hope and the ground that we walk on as Christians.
