Are Saints Models to Emulate or Little Gods?
In preparation for my ministry in the priesthood, I spent some months in a parish. Something quickly caught my attention: from early morning to evening there were...
Evans Chama
Towards an African Pentecost!
At the end of the African Synod II in October 2009 the reaction of the participants was like: Were our hearts not burning? There was a feeling...
A Greek Orthodox Giant of Unity
Aristokles Spyrou was born in 1886, in Greece. After completing his seminary education he was ordained a deacon in 1910 and took the name Athenagoras.
The Border-Crossing Pope
As a young priest, Fr Giovanni Montini was appointed to serve in the pope’s diplomatic mission in Poland.
How St John XXIII Worked for Unity
The late motivational speaker Leo Buscaglia said: The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing. In this Oct. 4, 1962 file...
A Group that shows how Unity Works
So far in this series I have looked at particular “Saints of Christian Unity”, but this month I’d like to focus on a special group that I...
The Patroness of Christian Unity
This month I’d like to introduce to you the patroness of Christian unity, Maria Gabriella Sagheddu. She was born in 1914 in Italy. Sr Maria Gabriella Sagheddu,...
The Father of Modern Ecumenism
Paul Couturier was born in France in 1881 to a family of a Jewish background and grew up among Muslims in Algeria. As a priest for the...
Dom Lambert’s Long Exile
Octave Beauduin was born in 1873 in Belgium. At 33, as a diocesan priest, he became a Benedictine monk at Mont-Cesar Abbey and received a new religious...
A Catholic-Anglican bond
A special ecumenical vocation was born when a French priest met an Anglican aristocrat on a Portuguese island.
