Church’s in transition?
When the cardinals prepared to choose a new pope in April, expectations among many of them were high that the man they would elect would usher in...
June 2005
An evangelical opportunity
Churches the world over should be rubbing their hands in glee at the radical, global transformation that is taking place in the way in which companies and...
Church’s dialogue with Jews
Pope Benedict may not engage in the expansive theatrical interplay of his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, but he evidently has a keen appreciation for the symbolic...
Poverty: It’s now or never
It is telling that a cardinal from one of Central America’s poorest countries should agitate so strongly for debt relief and aid to alleviate the desperate poverty...
A shared Eucharist
When in late May Pope Benedict and Cardinal Walter Kasper spoke about the Eucharist, they outlined why they believed sharing Communion with other churches remains inappropriate.
Teresa of Avila
Few saints were more human than Teresa of Avila. Few saints were more closely intimate with God than she was. Described by the papal nuncio of her...
Facing up to suicide
About a year ago, a funeral service caused much uproar in a South African archdiocese. Burying a 14-year-old girl who had impulsively shot herself, the presiding priest...
