Jerusalem: My Home and Yours
What motivates a Christian pilgrim guide in the Holy Land? RIMON MAKHLOUF, a Latin-rite Catholic from Jerusalem, tells his story. My home is Jerusalem. This is what I always answer when my tour groups...
What motivates a Christian pilgrim guide in the Holy Land? RIMON MAKHLOUF, a Latin-rite Catholic from Jerusalem, tells his story. My home is Jerusalem. This is what I always answer when my tour groups...
By Fr Allan Moss OMI – The sacred liturgy on Trinity Sunday proclaims: How great is your name, O Lord our God, through all the earth! (Ps 8:2). In the Old Testament, God’s sacred...
Church / Conversion / Other Writers / Pentecost / Perspectives
by admin · Published June 4, 2017 · Last modified May 7, 2017
At Pentecost, we are called to reflect what makes us Christian, and how we live our Catholic lives. Archbishop WILIAM SLATTERY OFM explains. Six weeks ago we celebrated Easter, recalling the passion and resurrection...
God / Marriage / Other Writers / Perspectives
by asiel · Published May 11, 2017 · Last modified May 9, 2017
By Gerald O’Collins SJ –Â Sunday by Sunday, we say together at the Eucharist: We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty. The Creed declares our common faith in God and does not begin...
Easter / God & Salvation / Jesus / Lent / Mercy & Forgiveness / Other Writers
by admin · Published March 8, 2017
By Catherine de Valence –Â This morning I thought of my late father whom I loved, and still love, very much. We were close but one thing that got in the way of our relationship...
BY SR MARIE ANDRÉ MITCHELL SND On October 28 the Church will mark the 50th anniversary of the document that broke new ground in interfaith relations: Nostra Aetate. More Stories: Believing in God is...
BY MBONGISENI NYATHI Most Catholics would like to enrich their faith and spiritual life — but many, it seems, are not sure how to do so. Some do not understand or appreciate the rituals...
By Fr Lawrence Mduduzi Ndlovu Earlier this year, the British Equality and Human Rights Commission published its findings on a survey on religion and belief. It found that religious, especially Christian, people in the...
BY FATHER BILLY BARNES We were lucky to find it. In fact, we were just about to give up when I looked to the left and saw a small village on the side of...
BY Fr Larry Kaufmann CSsR Pope Francis’ Misericordiae Vultus, which proclaims the Jubilee Year of Mercy for 2016, is truly a word of hope. I was able to share some of its message of...
BY FATHER KEVIN REYNOLDS –Â Because Holy Week commemorates the culmination of Christ’s human life, it is observed by Christians as the most sacred time of the year. Its first day, Palm Sunday, recalls Christ’s...
Faith Life / Other Writers / Perspectives
by Admin · Published March 16, 2015 · Last modified March 13, 2015
BY DEACON GREG GARNIE At the Easter Vigil we chant three times the words “Lumen Christi”— Christ Our Light — in the midst of darkness as the light of the Easter candle illuminates the darkness....