by Sean Reilly | Jul 4, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI has appealed to Christians to learn from the teachings of St Paul. Benedict described the apostle’s writings as those, “in which are rooted the reasons for the unity of the disciples of Christ” – writes Luigi Sandri. The Pope...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 1, 2008
Some sections of the Anglican Communion are convinced that only their narrow vision of what is permissible in faithfulness to the Christian message is adequate. Those who disagree must be excised or shunned. We have been here before. Indeed the first Council of the...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 20, 2008
As death continues to do its worst we find ourselves living in a ‘long Saturday’, suspended irresolvably, it seems, between the threat of despair and the possibility of hope. The former looks substantial and unavoidable. But what of the latter? By its nature, hope is...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 17, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI, leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, has said that Christians should give priority to unity in the global Week of Prayer that runs from 18-25 January. He also commended a peace message going back to philosopher and theologian St...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 11, 2008
Turkey’s small Roman Catholic community hopes to mark the 2000th anniversary of the birth of St Paul by improving the status of the country’s Christian minorities, as well as reopening a church at the apostle’s birthplace in Tarsus in the south of...
