Pilgrims who set out to follow the extensive journeys of St Teresa of Ávila across Spain are discovering the legacy of a dogged, enterprising woman. Catherine Pepinster tells her story in The Tablet.
Anna Schalk weeps each time she enters an Orthodox church and gazes at the flat, colourful icons of Jesus and Mary. Long drawn to spiritual images, the impressionistic painter recently attended a workshop to learn how to create them herself. NCR reports.
Fr Andrzej Kolaczkowski likes nothing more than spending time in fellowship with outlaw bikie club members, sharing the Gospel. “There’s something really refreshing when you sit down and do Bible study … with a bunch of hairy bikers full of tattoos," he told The Catholic Leader.
Archbishop Salvatore ‘Rino’ Fisichella is President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelisation and Co-ordinator of the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy. Witness spoke to him about the Year of Mercy and other projects he has helped organise.
"Like religion, art also has its martyrs and perhaps our greatest pain is that of inadequate self-expression. That’s an insight from Iris Murdoch and it holds true, I believe, for most everyone," writes Fr Ron Rolheiser.
MT 1: 1-25 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham became the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers.
The mass slaughter in Rwanda and Burundi in the 1990s shocked the world. Beneath the headlines, there are stories of individuals like Yolanda Manirakiza, whose journey of courage and faith is almost beyond belief.
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