Newsletter – 28 March 2016

March 28. 2016 To church reform organizational leaders: At this time when Christians are being persecuted all around the world – in France, Belgium, the U.S., and now Pakistan, it is time for Christians to unite and stand together. If the Roman Catholic Church...

But the Resurrection is different.

I think that hope is more significant than faith and love. Hope is rooted in imagination, in the ability to grasp other possibilities, to conceive of other options. It helps us escape a monochrome, paranoid world. While we all have imagination, we need the artist to...

Jesus & ourselves, compare! He emptied himself, we peacock!

by Dr James Kottoor Murder most foul on the cross. It made Friday good for the world and is called “Good Friday” Jesus is supposed to be the fulcrum on which everyone who calls him/herself to be a Christian must swing around all throughout his/her life, twenty-four...

From Peripheries he comes as outcast

The Homeless Jesus comes to the Vatican  By ANDREA TORNIELLI in Vatican Insider, 3/03/2016 A life-size sculpture of the Nazarene, depicted as a homeless person lying down on a bench, has been placed at the entrance of the Office of Papal Charities. It was created by...

A prayer for women’s priesthood

From Iglesia Descalza, by Rebel Girl   This prayer for women priests and the sketch to the right, were produced by a Benedictine nun at the Monasterio de Sant Benet in Catalonia, Spain, Sr. Montserrat Unterlöhner (photo), and were originally published in Catalan on...