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By Arnaud Bevilacqua in La Croix International 22 March 2024 When walking through the streets of Sarcelles, Trappes, or other low-income suburbs on the outskirts of Paris, it is evident that the people living in these communities believe in God. Simbron is 24 years old and lives in one of these communities in La Courneuve, […]

From Companion on the journey, Michael Centore

From Matthew Fox 18 March 2024. His highly recommended daily meditations are at https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/ Also encourages us to look back at Rosemary Radford Ruether! – Ed. In my major study on Aquinas, Sheer Joy: Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality, I devote several pages in the Introduction both to Aquinas’s “clay feet” where he cites

Also remembering women were at the Last Supper and Jesus welcomed women in public to what was considered a scandalous degree in his time. The Church’s open commensality attracted so many in the first couple centuries, including women deacons, ministering especially to other women. Do we want to choose to exclude or to welcome “todos,

“Either we care for Mother Earth, our Common Home, and we join hands to work together in solidarity, or we join the procession of those headed for their own funeral.” By James T. Keane January 30, 2024 Reflecting on more than 80 years of life in his 2022 book Thoughts and Dreams of an Old

The Church is/was already a “net – a network”, before the advent of the “internet”. The challenge today “is to be fully present” where people live and to build real relationships. The digital world is part of this context where we live and meet. Communicating faith, he stressed, is never simply transmitting information. It is

Pope Francis’ message for Lent 2024 Dear brothers and sisters! When our God reveals himself, his message is always one of freedom: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery” (Ex 20:2). These are the first words of the Decalogue given to