It is four years since Pope Francis wrote Fratelli Tutti. This encyclical was published on the Feast of St Francis of Assisi, 4 October in 2020 and is a call to all…
Read more It’s great to see children achieving. No parent could deny that there is satisfaction in watching a child take those first steps, utter those first words, create that…
Read more Who do you say I am? The question of who Jesus is, continues to plague generation after generation. Every now and then there is a major resurgence…
Read more He makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak Human “blindness” and “deafness” can be part of each of our lives. To what are…
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I’m a law keeper. I generally like to know what the laws and rules are in the organisation, whether that is in the Church or in general society. Most rules,…
Read more Chapter 6 of John’s Gospel concludes this weekend, the 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time. Over the last five weeks we have been given separate servings of the one discourse on…
Read more During the week, on 15 August, the Church celebrated the Feast of the Assumption. In terms of church history, it is relatively new, starting only in 1950, less than 100…
Read more The Church’s liturgy gives us six weeks of John’s Gospel at this time of the year. The text from John is a continuous reading of Chapter 6, following…
Read more What might you be thinking or feeling when you notice a homeless person on the street? Feel sympathetic, feel a need to reach inside your pocket for some loose change…
Read more In the past few weeks in Mark’s Gospel we have heard of Jesus’ rejection by his hometown and then the formation of a new family of those who hear his…
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