Is it right to fear God? What is the difference between a destructive fear and a “holy trepidation”? An Advent homily by Fr Stephen Wang: Look around you at the chapel walls. Look at the […]
Archive for September, 2015
How to find Christ as you begin the new academic year
Thoughts for Catholic students as they begin the academic year: finding the positive behind the apparent negative in the bible and the Christian faith; the real reasons for coming to church; the joy of the […]
St John Bosco hits the charts
It’s not often you hear the phrases “Don Bosco” and “Amazon Top 200 Singles” in the same breath. This note just came in from the Salesians: We have just released a Don Bosco single to […]
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross
I have often been told I have a very vivid imagination. This may be true. So often with our faith we have to use our imaginations to try and visualize the scenes we read about […]
Resisting assisted suicide
Tomorrow the UK Parliament debates a Bill tabled by the MP Robert Marris to legalise assisted suicide. The following is an excerpt from the new edition of a book by UK and US Catholic Voices coordinators Austen Ivereigh and […]
Summary of new norms governing nullity procedures & press conference
The Vatican has released the following English-language summaries of the two documents promulgated today by Pope Francis reforming canonical processes for the declaration of nullity of marriage, in the Code of Canon Law (CIC) and the Code […]
Eight Reasons not to legalize Physician Assisted Suicide
From the Anscombe Bioethics Centre. 1. Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS) would not address the urgent needs of the dying One attraction of PAS is that it is thought to address the suffering of the dying. […]
Happy 25th Anniversary, Youth 2000
I spent the bank holiday weekend at Walsingham for the annual Youth 2000 Summer Festival. There was a very nice piece about the group in the Catholic Herald just a few days before by Joanna […]
Our response to the refugee crisis will be judged by history
[Post by Brenden Alejandro Thompson] In the Twitterstorm provoked by the harrowing image of a three-year-old Syrian boy dead on a Turkish beach, the hashtags #IAmAnImmigrant and #humanitywashedashore have been trending, together with an image of St […]
Francis’s bold message to abortion survivors: come and be freed
Pope Francis yesterday sent media and commentators into a tailspin after calling for all priests to be granted the faculty to absolve the sin of abortion during the Year of Mercy (see Crux). The bold gesture, […]
