Trauma – 3 years later
Until October 16, 2017, I was one of the thousands addicted to clicking Running Commentary hoping for another…
The Shameful Truth
Truth and Freedom are qualities we all desire - in our communities, in our leaders, in one another, and in ourselves. But how willing are we really to take the path of shame?
A playful social being
In this article I shall be arguing the need to retrieve our playful being as a way of participating in a playful God. Against our hubris, social play emerges.
Embarking on a journey of healing-through-rethinking
Last May, while Rome was under lockdown for the Covid-19 pandemic, Pope Francis initiated a global year-long process…
It takes a child to raise the economy!
‘It takes a village to raise a child.’ This is true as long as the aim of the village is the raising of the child and not only focused on its economy.
Bħal vjaġġatur mill-bogħod
Bħal vjaġġatur mill-bogħod nistenniek tiġi,mifruxa ħarsti ’l hemm lejn l-orizzont,nitħabat ma’ tqalligħ il-mewġ tal-ħajja,taman li ma ndumx wisq…
Kissing the Lord
It is in the garden, still smeared in the blood of his agony, foreshadowing the blood of his passion, that the mouth of Judas meets the mouth of Jesus. Yet the mouth has always been a pathway into another world.
The Beauty of Idleness
In a society that places production before people, and economy before well-being, the greatest act of protest to help us rediscover our humanity is to do... absolutely nothing!
The value of life
After the successful search and rescue of a suicide victim, as the rescuers celebrated their success, I kept wondering: what's the value of a person’s life?
One Bishop, one Church
In their role of “headship” of the Church, Pope and Bishops, embody the paradox that Catholicism recognizes as the only real path to Truth—and notwithstanding the power and authority bestowed on them, they do so through their personal poverty.