Catholics and evangelicals must “continue to witness together to the Gospel and to continue on the road to full unity,” Francis said.
Faith
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Top Vatican official will be special delegate to Order of Malta
Pope Francis told the archbishop “you will be my exclusive spokesperson in all that pertains to the relations between the Holy See and the order.”
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Dust up with Order of Malta ends not with a bang but a reinstatement
The appointment of a special delegate raises the question of what will happen to Cardinal Burke. He is still cardinal-patron of the order but no longer the pope’s sole interlocutor with the order.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
What I’ve learned in the trenches of religious education
People are more likely to be open to hearing the truth if they know you occasionally feed them and give them free babysitting.
Posted inFaith
What Mother Teresa wouldn’t do for a million dollars
Christ and his saints have a different way of calculating a thing’s worth
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How the Catholic Worker showed me what it means to be Catholic
Young and old, educated and mentally impaired, healthy and addicted, they wrapped strong and weak arms around us and they held us up.
Posted inFaith, News
German church OKs case-by-case Communion for remarried
A statement from the German bishops’ conference “opens the possibility of receiving the sacraments of reconciliation and the Eucharist.”
Posted inFaith, Features
What happens when a family of refugees is invited to live with a community of Jesuits?
An Ethiopian family arrived in Malta as refugees. A Jesuit community welcomed them.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Krista Tippett: Religion does not have a monopoly on faith.
Krista Tippett shares unexpected wisdom from 20 years of interviewing people about faith
Posted inFaith, Interviews
A closer look at Luke’s Gospel of mercy
Consider this: only Luke tells us the story of the Prodigal Son, the Good Samaritan and the Good Thief.