This Week’s Issue – May 25-31, 2016
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May 2016
Joy is the True Mark of a Christian
True Christians are defined by the joy they carry in their hearts and the assurance that God accompanies them even...
Pope: Prayer is not a Magic Wand that Fulfils your Desires
Prayer is what helps you keep the faith when you don’t understand God’s will, Pope Francis said. Prayer is meant...
Why Mary is Our Mother
By Father Ralph de Hahn – Mary, her son and some disciples attend the wedding feast at Cana, and it...
Sainthood Sometimes Includes Biting your Tongue
Conversion isn’t telling the priest, “Oh father, for me to convert I must do penance – give me a clobbering...
The Miracle that Saved Cairo’s Christians
Christianity is active and beautiful in Cairo. In the tenth and final part of his series on the recent Pilgrimage...
The Art of Decision-Making
Making decisions is never easy. But we remember that our entire lives rest in God’s hands, the hands of a...
Daniel Berrigan – A Priest who Waged not War but Peace
When I talked with him, the soft-spoken Father Berrigan, then in his late- 80s, told me he was still writing,...
Xenophobic Attacks Shame Us All
By Kelvin Banda OP, Pietermaritzburg – As a young Zambian Dominican scholastic living in South Africa, I received the bad news of...
