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…
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.
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.
A community who cares for one another
To what extent do we as Church, as fellow travellers on this journey of faith, accompany one another intimately, personally, and not just through our “office” or “role”?
Church “in spirit and truth”
What we are experiencing—for the first time— is “being church” where we have no choice but to pay attention to the digital environment we are immersed in.
Church according to Thomas
Had Thomas doubted? Thomas had not doubted that Jesus was “the Way.” But Thomas had doubted: himself above all others. The thing is, Thomas could not trust one, but not the other. The thing is, he could no longer live that ambivalence. And Jesus now gave him the gift: he would never be able to doubt again, at least not himself.