Covid-19 has muted the 100th
anniversary of Karol Wojtyla’s birth, but it has also focussed us more closely on our families, which was undoubtedly the greatest pastoral concern for this great pastor.
While we debate Covid-19 statistics and lockdown measures, many of our Christian brothers and sisters around the world are readily putting their very lives at risk by professing and practicing their faith.
St Anselm, together with St George, offers a clear model for a pragmatic faith during the difficulties of lockdown.
Fr Jose Granados offers a different perspective on the Covid-19 crisis: that of providence and the corresponding call to love in ever more creative ways.
One of the most defining points in English history is arguably the Reformation, which redefined England’s culture as well as its religious trajectory.
The gradual divorce of the Christian worldview from Western culture has left many unable to appreciate the fundamentally religious framework of the likes of Michelangelo and Ruskin.
Like the star that guided the Magi, the Christian Heritage Centre’s mission is to offer a navigational marker in today’s culture to those seeking God.
Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical addressed new and profound societal changes with the long-standing wisdom and doctrine of the Catholic Church. Today’s leaders need to understand such encyclicals in order to be able to provide a Christian leadership.
Authentic flourishing rests on our two capacities for faith and for reason. If modernism rejected the place of faith in society, post-modernism now rejects the notion of universal truth.
The Stonyhurst Collections are a rich resource in learning about the importance of signs and symbols in the Church’s liturgy.
