Prayer Articles

In our office, there is a quiet little desk in the corner that is home to piles of books, a coffee cup, and a bespectacled...

Bowls of lentil stew may not be what many consider the stereotyped Christian dish. There aren’t (as far as I’m aware) any Gospel passages where...

My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms’ wrote Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. These...

The beginning of the year brings all kinds of resolutions and promises. Fresh starts, new commitments, a different outlook. It’s a bit like Lent for...

Full disclosure here: I rather like cats. The site of a little mangy abandoned kitten can reduce me to sobs. Pope Benedict XVI apparently liked...

In 2012, Pope Benedict wrote a letter for the World Day of Communications on silence. It was an unusual departure from the tradition of the...

It’s been widely reported that Pope Francis never owned a mobile phone while he was the Cardinal Archbishop of Buenos Aires. Yet, his election to...

Sitting in church after reconciliation I was struck by the two sides of God, human and divine. The divinity of God is such an out...

So, why do we give things up for Lent? Obviously nothing we give up is going to amount to the sacrifice of Our Lord, so...

As a musician, I like music in the Catholic liturgy. I prefer weekend mass to have music rather than not. Music moves me in sometimes...

Is there some area of your life in which you are being asked to wait? I’m sitting here in rural Paraguay waiting, waiting for a...

In countries like Australia, the United States, New Zealand and Europe, urban centres tend to have their fair share people on street corners, begging for...