The Border-Crossing Pope
As a young priest, Fr Giovanni Montini was appointed to serve in the pope’s diplomatic mission in Poland.
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Perspectives
Perspectives
As I’m Getting Older…
Why do we have to grow old? Why did God design us to grow old?
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Perspectives
A Life Devoted to Those at the Margins
Johan Viljoen’s religious journey took him from the Dutch Reformed Church via the Anglican priesthood to the Catholic Church. And
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Ntabeni Perspectives
Are we Prophets of Doom or Hope?
Everyone talks about our country’s lost moral compass. Our government keeps stumbling from one corruption scandal into another.
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Church Perspectives Shackleton
Why Couldn’t Priest Hear Confession?
After Mass in a diocese in Britain I requested the celebrant to hear my confession. He replied he couldn’t, because
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Magliano Perspectives
The Green Encyclical has Arrived!
It’s courageous, it’s prophetic, it’s challenging, it’s holistic, it’s wonderful: That’s what I think of Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical “Laudato
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Perspectives Sarah-Leah Pimentel Youth
Live Your Life – Today
I often think that teenagers must get frustrated with us older folk when we begin conversations with them like this:
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Perspectives Pilgrimage
A Pilgrim in the Land of Jesus
Many years ago as a student in London I travelled to Rome by train. In the year 2000 my wife
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Other Writers Perspectives
A visit to Place of Jesus’ Miracle
BY FATHER BILLY BARNES We were lucky to find it. In fact, we were just about to give up when
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