Gone AWOL 8 Apr 2013 | 09:29 am

Back for the last week in April. Keep well, my dears.

“Come and have breakfast” 5 Apr 2013 | 02:29 am

Both Luke and John describe post-Resurrection encounters where the disciples didn’t recognise Jesus until they’d spoken to him, or where he didn’t look as they remembered but they somehow knew it was ...

Seeing is believing 4 Apr 2013 | 02:05 am

“As he showed them real hands and a real side, he really ate with his disciples; really walked with Cleophas; conversed with men with a real tongue; really reclined at supper; with real hands took bre...

Rise up and walk! 3 Apr 2013 | 04:59 am

We’re not told in today’s first reading how the lame beggar felt the next morning, when he woke up and realised that he no longer had a job. Perhaps he’d learned skills before he was lame that he coul...

Reformation, like charity, begins at home 2 Apr 2013 | 05:52 am

Last week, we had a combox discussion about what in the Church needs reform. David Schutz, in a thoughtful post on the reform of the Curia, reminds us that reform can’t stop in one place, and that – i...

To the city and the world 1 Apr 2013 | 07:11 am

Dear brothers and sisters in Rome and throughout the world, Happy Easter! What a joy it is for me to announce this message: Christ is risen! I would like it to go out to every house and every family, ...

He is risen! 30 Mar 2013 | 10:26 am

God has died, and hell trembles 30 Mar 2013 | 04:20 am

From the Office of Readings – an excerpt from an ancient homily for Holy Saturday… Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole ea...

Holy Saturday – Today there is a Great Silence over the world 29 Mar 2013 | 11:17 pm

I thirst! Jesus asks for the fourth cup of the Passover 29 Mar 2013 | 07:05 am

See, here’s the thing. According to the Gospels, Jesus and his disciples took only three cups during the Passover meal. It was with the third one, the cup of redemption (also called the cup of blessin...