God is Love: 6th Sunday of Easter
Sermon by Emmanuel Suntheni OSB Theme: “Deus Caritas Est: GOD IS LOVE” Point of reflection: Have you ever been loved? What is love? The biblical readings of...
Category: God
Where Are the Social Workers?
One of the Batho Pele (or “People First”) principles on which government prides itself is “access”. When public officials are inducted into their work portfolios, the eight...
God’s Gender in Liturgy, Prayers and Hymns
Question: I would very much like to know the church’s official position on whether God should be referred to as “Father” (that is, in masculine terms) or...
Pope: Ask God to Help You Pray
By Carol Glatz – Every Christian is unique because the Holy Spirit inspires something new and original in each person, creating “an endless field of holiness,” Pope Francis...
Can God be found in science fiction? Actor suggests, well, maybe
By Mark Pattison – Is it possible the God of the universe is also the God of space aliens? In the scientific realm, the new Mars rover,...
Pope: God offers Humanity a Love with no Equal on Earth
By Carol Glatz – There is no greater love in the world than the love God has for humanity, Pope Francis said. “What kind of God is...
Moral Conscience Needs More Than The Catechism
How do we grow in light of the Church’s teachings? The answer isn’t as simple as it might seem. Sarah-Leah Pimentel explains. For many generations of Catholics, religious formation began...
God’s Blinding Light
I wonder what it’s like to spend a day at the office with God. Who takes the calls? Are there meetings in boardrooms? How’s the coffee? Is...
How Well is All With My Soul?
I am a big fan of the television commercials produced by a local fast-food chicken franchise with a rhyming name that is neither Portuguese nor from the...
The Pandemic Solution: Look to God’s Promises
The wave upon wave of the coronavirus pandemic has caused so much disruption in every country, every family, our very Church life, driving us into a totally...
God, Creator of Colour
By Nancy de Flon – In “Hurrahing in Harvest” the Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins revels in the marvellous elements of nature that herald the arrival of autumn....
Archbishop Charles Chaput: God and Man in an Age of Unbelief
For the past three centuries, Western societies have worked hard “to construct a harmonious moral life through human reason alone, without God,” but “it doesn’t work,” Philadelphia...
