I’m writing this week from St Peter’s Square. It’s Sunday evening and the piazza is calmer now after the immense crowds of this morning’s canonisations. People are wandering around, pausing to photograph the giant portraits of the Church’s new saints hanging from the Basilica. Others are sitting on the steps under the colonnade gazing at…
The Cross on Easter Sunday
The cross is an inspiration and a challenge
We can’t lose sight of profound truths
We should assume nothing in faith formation
A missionary and maintenance Church
The New Evangelisation is about attitude
Christians will need a thick skin
Is anti-Catholicism ‘the last acceptable prejudice’?
Remember – we’ve already won
We must be hopeful, even without positive signs
The crime of gossip
“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour”
Comfort of community and ritual
Respond to fear with faith
Clutching at straws
Andrew O’Connell examines a Christmas tradition
The wisdom of an Irish missionary
Missionaries have remarkable motivation and faith
