Focus

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  Hans Kung knows churchss problems - and that change is inevitable

  May 08, 2014

  There are a number of reasons why it is particularly apt that I would be writing about theologian Fr. Hans Kung's latest writings.

  

• Food for thought

  May 08, 2014

  At one time or another, some of us may have a hard time accepting death, ours or someone else’s. The idea of the unknown can be daunting, even overwhelming.

  

• Complicated questions and feelings when faced with death

  May 08, 2014

  Last year, not long before a friend asked me an anguished question, she sat in the front pew on Ash Wednesday and smiled as I sang.

  

• Moving beyond death and into our inheritance

  May 08, 2014

  O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” (1 Cor 15:55)

  

• Who is our neighbour?

  May 02, 2014

  It was a question posed in the midst of a discussion about gaining eternal life. When the scholar of the law asked Jesus what he must do, Jesus replied with the dual commandment to love God and love your neighbour.

  

• Food for Thought

  May 02, 2014

  This year, a group of U.S. bishops celebrated Mass in Nogales, Ariz., close to the iron slabs that line the border between Mexico and the United States.

  

• The riddle of my neighbours and yours

  May 02, 2014

  Neighbours are an enigmatic reality of life, a sort of riddle to solve. Many people are of two minds when it comes to “neighbours” in the larger sense of the term found in the Gospels.

  
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  God’s quiet presence in our lives

  May 02, 2014

  The poet, Rumi, submits that we live with a deep secret that sometimes we know, and then not.

  
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  The transcript of our trial

  Apr 24, 2014

  The biblical accounts of Jesus’ passion and death focus very much on his trial, describing it in length and in detail.

  

• Food for thought

  Apr 24, 2014

  With the latest saints added to the roster, we’re reminded that sainthood is for everyone.