The Name of God is Mercy is an extended interview with Pope Francis, turned into a book, exploring his reflections on and experiences of God’s heavenly mercy. In it, he elaborates on the reasons he called for this Jubilee Year of Mercy that we are now celebrating. The book came out earlier this year, and… Read More On “The Name of God is Mercy”
Check out these highlights from this excellent speech by the President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Peter Turkson, at the Global Responsibility 2030 conference meeting in Germany: Sustainable development is one of the greatest challenges facing the human family. It is no longer sufficient to measure human progress only in terms… Read More Pope Francis’ Call for Sustainable, Integral Development
Pope Francis: “Mercy can really contribute to building a more human world. Especially in our times, in which forgiveness is a rare guest in the areas of human life, the call to be merciful becomes more urgent.”
I have a confession to make. Actually, I already made it. On December 8th, the opening of the Jubilee Year of Mercy, I was absolved of a whole lot of sins for the first time in a long time. A really, really long time. It wasn’t laziness or a fear of the confessional that kept… Read More #SorryNotSorry: My return to the Sacrament of Reconciliation
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Entertaining Ourselves to Death by Timothy O’Malley: “The Church’s schools, universities, hospitals, and parishes have a responsibility to re-build a political culture of love, of solidarity, and of hope. Yet, the first step may be turning away from the very political culture that has created the… Read More Around the Web
In Madrid we live in apartment flats (pisos) and our house chapel is a converted bedroom – a rather small bedroom. For our community of fifteen fully grown Jesuits, it can be a tight fit. The space is about twice as long as it is wide, so we sit on a bench against one of… Read More The Mystery in the Mundane
via CNS: San Diego Bishop Robert W. McElroy is challenging U.S. Catholics to take an active role in combating “the scourge of anti-Islamic prejudice.” “We are witnessing in the United States a new nativism, which the American Catholic community must reject and label for the religious bigotry which it is,” he said in a keynote… Read More Catholics Must Combat Anti-Islamic Prejudice
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