Tag Archive for ‘Pope Francis’
On the Role of Priests and the Witness of Women
From his Chrism Mass Homily the role of priests A good priest can be recognized by the way his people are anointed. This is a clear test. When our people are anointed with the oil of gladness, it is obvious: for example, when they leave Mass looking as if they have heard good news. Our […]
Can You Bear It?
A teenager was always asking his father if he could borrow the family car. Pushed to the limit, the father asked his son why he thought God had given him two feet. Without hesitation, the son replied, “That’s easy – one for the clutch, and one for the accelerator.” Smith climbs to the top of […]
May
When the Cardinals entered the Sistine Chapel for the Conclave, the last thing 1.2 billion Catholics expected was a Pope who would identify closely with pensioners in the Church by riding the bus and paying his bills in person! An Historic Photo or a Pious Forgery? This picture of Pope John Paul II with […]
A Jesuit Pope named Francis
After an eventful month the Church has a new Pontiff embodying two great spiritualities of the Church – the first Jesuit Pope and the first Pope called Francis. Not a young man or the first black Pope, but the first Pope from South America, an arena where some of the sharpest dilemmas of the modern […]
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