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…
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.
Putting the Pieces Back Together
How do we begin to overcome the great divisions within society? Amongst other things, by realising that I need the 'other' as much as they need me
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”?
A Church that witnesses
Witness is the Church’s lifeblood; and that life, lavished with his blood, is today in the solidarity, mutual care and self-emptying love we offer each other as concrete acts of ‘tending lambs’.
A pilgrimage towards the Golgotha
This period is a pilgrimage period of walking up towards the Golgotha. As a Church, we are invited to partake in the sacrifice of Christ by feeling abandoned and lost, a spiritual desert, while we think of one another, intercede and make ourselves available for others. We are called to be the Simon of Cyrene.