Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

The New Orbital Evangelism

The Pope delivered a strange message on March 27, 2020, in full pandemic confinement, in a deserted Saint Peter’s Square. Francis invited everyone to have “the courage to open spaces where all can feel called, and allow new forms of hospitality and fraternity, as well as solidarity.” What are these new spaces? On June 7, […]

The Second Death of St. Thomas More

St. Thomas More is one of the glories of English Catholicism: Lord-Chancellor of King Henry VIII, of whom he was for a long time one of the proteges, Sir Thomas was beheaded on July 6, 1535, owing to his refusal to take the Oath of Supremacy and swear allegiance to the monarch as the Supreme […]

Synod on Synodality: The “Instrumentum Laboris” (3)

This third article examines the points that will be proposed for discussion at the Assembly in October. They are gathered under the “three priority questions for the Synodal Church”: communion, mission, and participation. Worksheets These worksheets “have been prepared to facilitate discernment on the three “priorities that most strongly emerge from the work of all […]

Israel: A Journalist Dressed as a Franciscan Is Spat Upon4

Yossi Eli of Israel’s Channel 13 wanted to investigate the spike in hate crimes against Christians. Dressed in the Franciscan habit and accompanied by Fr. Alberto Pari, secretary of the Custody of the Holy Land, he began to wander around Jerusalem. Five minutes after leaving, Eli was spat on by Jewish Israeli settlers. So that […]

United States: One Year After the Right to Life Victory

It was just a year ago, on June 24, 2022, as the Universal Church celebrated the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, when the Supreme Court of the United States of America reversed Roe v. Wade, the decision which, since 1973, had granted American women the right to an abortion. It is a decision which […]