Ruadhán JonesWhen I was very young, I came across a story that has left an indelible impression on me. The story centres on two bedridden men who shared a hospital room.
How to conquer envy with God in 12 steps
Category: Your Faith
Early Church Mothers?
In recent years, some have charged that the role of women in the early church was glossed over or, even worse, deliberately suppressed. The best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code is a case in point.
Our lifestyle and our over-strained planet
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
In a book, The Book of Hope, which he co-authored with Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams makes this statement: Creating the human race may be the single biggest mistake evolution ever made.
‘Rich food and choice wines’
This Sunday’s scripture is not very helpful if you’re trying to stay on a diet. Again and again, we hear about extravagant dining: “rich food and choice wines” in Isaiah; a full table and an overflowing cup in the psalm; a rich wedding feast in the Gospel from Matthew.
Exploring the young life of St John Paul II
On October 22, we celebrate the feast of St John Paul II. While his image as Pope is iconic, his early life is less well known, making Karol, an exceptionally popular biography of the even more popular Karol Wojtyła, later known as Pope St John Paul II, a very useful film, as well as a good one.
What’s the point of miracles?
It is common to hear, ‘It’s a miracle’, for a sports comeback victory. Does the Church actually have a definition of a miracle?
Synodality can help us fulfil the Church’s mission – evangelisation
Synod on Synodality faces task of helping Catholics evangelise effectively, writes Kimberley Heatherington “Evangelising,” Pope Francis has said, “is the Church’s mission. It is not the mission of only a few, but it is mine, yours and our mission.” How the Church equips Catholics to carry out this mission to preach the Good News…
So much of evangelisation depends on how we sow
Chai Brady
David Mills A writer and I were going back and forth about how the best devotional article won’t get as many readers as a political article by the same writer. Publish a wild rant claiming that God hates Biden or that God hates Trump and the numbers shoot up. Publish a deep meditation on God’s…
Five reasons why St Francis is a model of synodality
Fr Patrick Briscoe OP Chesterton once wrote, “Newspapers not only deal with news, but they deal with everything as if it were entirely new”. There’s a lot of new talk surrounding synodality. But, insofar as synods have been an ancient model for Church governance, there’s something quite old there. Which is why I propose…
Does insufficient faith keep us from being healed?
Jenna Marie Cooper Q: When I was Evangelical, we were told Jesus wanted to heal us, every time; we need only ask “in his name”. If we weren’t healed it was because we lacked sufficient faith to “claim it”. I remember my Catholic Grandma saying though, that sometimes God heals and sometimes not, and…