ARTICLES

Adoro te Devote?

Today marks the solemnity of Corpus Christi. In the past, there would be processions; the real presence in the monstrance carried aloft...

Apologia pro vita?

For those of us in Europe, the weeks leading up to 25 May 2018 was marked with seemingly incessant communications about the change in the...

Veni Creator Spiritus?

The pattern of the liturgical year has the potential to provide both momentum and pause. For many parishes, the season of Easter to...

For the sake of the Kingdom?

Whilst leaving church recently, my attention was drawn to a publication. The document was in the nature of a promotional pamphlet...

Self-Understanding?

Most people will agree that the message of Christ is a call to action. Whilst the form of response may vary from contemplative or...

"Oh Gates, lift high your heads, grow Higher Ancient Doors?"

Commentaries upon the psalms invariably point to the wisdom of the psalmist and the comfort to be derived from the psalms in our current...

The Empty Tomb?

Resurrexit sicut Dixit, Alleluia! At the risk of stating the obvious, the lenten weeks have not been a source of sustaining news:...

Crowd Control?

The Gospel narratives speak of Jesus being pursued by the crowd; responding to their questions, recognizing their needs, feeding them and...

Art of Dying or Living?

This last week, a conference was held in Flanders, Belgium. Hosted, as it is every year by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the Onclin...

Book of Numbers?

It seems that no matter where one looks in the UK and Ireland, the talk is of decline in numbers: mass attendances etc, etc. This has...