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From the Director - My cup is full Throughout Columban Fr Leo Donnelly's priestly life, he was concerned with the dignity of people. His articles had a constant theme of the damage that poverty does to the self esteem of people who are at the bottom of society's social scale. (more) |
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Blessings of meditation We cannot but be moved by the natural contemplative spirit of ‘our’ children who are poor, sick and lonely and yet who give themselves to meditation; as they sit in the candlelight the little ones are united in peace. (more) |
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Christians and Muslims unite to end slavery The Global Freedom Network launched yesterday at the Vatican, and brings together the Catholic, Anglican and Sunni Islamic faiths in a united effort to end modern slavery. (more) |
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Cunnamulla Connecting Just before I left Cunnamulla we had three inches of rain. One of my 91 year old parishioners drove through the gutters at the gates of the church spraying water everywhere. Her 92 year old sister sitting in the car was a little disturbed. (more) |
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Money a 'new tyranny' In his recent Apostolic Exhortation 'Evangelii Gaudium', Pope Francis warned about the dominance of money becoming a 'new tyranny' in society where business fights any government regulation. (more) |
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Reflection - He became poor so that... |
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Lenten Resource: The Grace of Earth |
While fingers may be pointed at Philippine military it is more likely that the hired killer that parked his motor bike outside the house of father Pops on the morning of October 17, walked up to him and shot him point blank as he was getting into his car, had the mark of an experienced trained assassin.