Category: Articles
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FRATERNITY AND SOLIDARITY
2022 was not short of disasters and tragic moments. In his message for the 56th World Day of Peace, 1 January 2023, Pope Francis said that “at the very moment when we dared to hope that the darkest hours of the Covid-19 pandemic were over, a terrible disaster befell humanity. We witnessed the onslaught of…
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ECHOES OF RERUM NOVARUM
Our current pope took his name from Leo XIII, who is most well known for his 1891 encyclical “Rerum Novarum”, a foundational document in Catholic social teaching. In revisiting this encyclical, we can understand and appreciate the ways Leo XVI’s papacy reflects and extends Leo XIII concern for a just society. In Rerum Novarum, or…
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FEAST OF DIVINE MERCY
The Resurrection of Jesus was the most important event in the history of the world. When the Lord appeared in the ‘Upper Room’ to the apostles pointing out his wounds, it was to demonstrate He was the Crucified Christ, and to show he had resurrected from the dead. The final proof that he was God.…
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CHRISTIANITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
In his new encyclical Dilexit Nos on the divine and human love of the heart of Jesus, Pope Francis wrote that “we are in a world where everything is bought and sold, people’s sense of their worth appears increasingly to depend on what they can accumulate with the power of money. We are constantly being…
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BEYOND SECULAR RESOLUTIONS
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals. (Melody Beattie) A recent survey by Forbes Health found some new year resolutions people make to be more common than others, with the most popular including improved fitness, improved finances,…
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BEFRIENDING OUR VULNERABILITY
To some extent we are all vulnerable in some way or another. To be vulnerable is to be susceptible to being wounded or hurt. To be vulnerable is to admit that we are not perfect people and each of us experience throughout our lifetime moments of brokenness, grief, disability, sadness, loneliness and anxiety. But should…
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A HOME FOR ALL GOD’S CREATURES
In an address by Pope Francis to the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Pope said that “We must praise the steps being taken to improve people’s welfare in areas such as healthcare, education and communications and that we must also recognise the fundamental role that modern business activity has had in bringing about these…
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A LIVING FAITH
Karl Rahner is credited with making the statement that today one is either a mystic or a nonbeliever. This is basically true for most of us today. In his book ‘The Holy Longing’, Ronald Rolheiser says that it is no longer enough to have been born into a Christian family, to have been baptised, or…
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WORKPLACE SPIRITUALITY – Beyond the Profit Line
The social, moral and economic benefits of embedding spirituality in the business formula. We all know the magnitude of the chaos caused by the disregard of sound value-based corporate cultures leading to subsequent scandals. Financial disasters like Enron, Parmalat, Lehman Brothers, and WorldCom, just to mention a few, have led to a serious re-thinking and…
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VIRTUES -The quite force of progress
In the wake of a global economic crisis, it comes as no surprise that two of the world’s most influential leaders President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Gordon Brown have openly professed an element so indispensable in the healing process of regenerating economic growth, freedom and a new way of life. Both have referred to…
