When Pope Francis recently spoke about the Church needing to be a ‘builder of bridges, not of walls’, Judith Lynch was reminded of Oscar Wilde's The Selfish Giant, whose walls around his garden needed to be toppled before light and life could return into it.
On the eve of setting off for Peru, Iguazu and World Youth Day in Rio with 250 young pilgrims from the Diocese of Parramatta, Sr Louise McKeogh reflects on freedom, courage, overcoming poverty and change.
There are many useful insights that could be offered by the people of God, in matters of critical importance to the whole Church, writes Garry Everett. Please take up the invitation, or invite yourself. The Church needs you.
Donella Johnston hopes an upcoming Colloquium will help in discerning ways in which the wisdom of women might be better integrated into the life and leadership of the Church.
L'Arche founder Jean Vanier yesterday received the 2013 Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award, writes Holy Irritant Tony Robertson. On Sunday July 7 the village of Trosly-Breuil hosted an International event that saw its famed
Fr John Ryan writes about Tony Campolo, the Baptist Minister and one time spiritual adviser to President Clinton, telling the story of paying his respects at the wrong funeral.
The elusive concept of “the Catholic Vote” frequently makes an appearance during elections and this year’s Australian Federal election will be no different, writes Archbishop Mark Coleridge on the ACBC’s own Media Blog.
An apology from Bishop Bill Wright, in the Aurora magazine of the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle.
‘The hospice makes one understand that dying means living before death,’ Pope John Paul II once reflected, writes Gabrielle Mc Mullen. Such a place, he said, becomes ‘a threshold of hope which leads beyond suffering and death’.
Christian faith is based upon the event of the Incarnation – the in-breaking of the Kingdom of God, writes Mark Johnson.
‘Vacation’ comes from the Latin, vacare, ‘to empty’, writes Richard White, fresh from a recent vacation. Becoming empty, being emptied, he adds, makes room for other things.
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