On his first visit to Asia as pope Francis is going to South Korea He left the Rome airport at four o rsquo clock in the afternoon local time today August 13 on board an Alitalia flight His main reason for visiting Korea is to participate in the sixth Asian Youth Day that is being held in Daej
In his homily on August 6 to a group of altar servers from Germany Pope Francis addressed the distractions of the social media age Our life is made up of time and time is a gift of God hence it must be used in good and fruitful actions Perhaps many youngsters and young people waste too many hour
At the website The Catholic Thing Daniel McInerny offers an eloquent defense of the arts very timely for the upcoming academic year and a nice resource for art teachers who -- not unlike theology teachers -- must defend their subject from those who deem it unnecessary In his brief essay quot A Ca
Father John Zuhlsdorf quot Father Z quot is an American-born priest of the Suburbicarian Diocese of Velletri-Segni in Italy and a Catholic media figure A convert from Lutheranism in college he was ordained by Saint John Paul II in 1991 nbsp He worked in Rome as a collaborator in the Pontific
Archbishop Sir David Moxon KNZM the Archbishop of Canterbury rsquo s Personal Representative to the Holy See was formerly the Bishop of Waikato Senior Bishop of the New Zealand Diocese and the Anglican Archbishop and Primate of the Church in Aotearna New Zealand and Polynesia nbsp A native of
Many people know Manresa Spain as the place where Ignatius spent about a year in solitude and in prayer It was a time post-conversion of coming to terms with his conscience and gaining his spiritual bearings It was at Manresa where Ignatius put together the early notes for the Spiritual Exercis
Much modern talk about God tends to reduce the creator to a living doll who wants to give us a divine cuddle There is no doubt that the essence of God rsquo s being is love but the experience of that love and of God rsquo s being is not always an experience of comfort and ease God can disturb th
One of the most shocking but welcome aspects of the Bible is how often power is challenged It occurs so often in the biblical tradition that we might take it for granted but the practice of saying uncomfortable things to those who have authority to speak from a position of weakness to those who