‘Christ is Alive!’ – but is the institution dying?
As is often the way with Vatican formality, Pope Francis has released his Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation almost exactly six months since the end of the Synod meeting, and a year since his conversations with young people during the pre-synodal consolation. Christus Vivit (Christ is Alive) aims to be a response to the Vatican opening its doors to…
In a host of memories
In the bustle and routine of everyday life, it is easy to be both absorbed and disaffected. Today as I pulled a hundred things out of my handbag, a photograph fell out of my diary. It’s a photograph that I forgot that I had, and had not looked at for a long time. The picture…
Podcast: remember, remember
Our ‘Art of Dying Well’ podcasts aim to make death and dying something we can talk about openly without discomfort or fear. Each month we interview a guest on a key topic, engage in a little ‘death chatter’ before getting the view from the ‘chaplain’s chair’. November’s Art of Dying Well podcast, fittingly, looks at…
Ten fantastic female saints you need to hear about this International Women’s Day
There are times in which we look into the Catholic sphere and think, where are the women? A male-dominated hierarchy, male disciples, men at the altar, financial council, annual BBQ (but often not at the children’s liturgy). The debate over a woman’s place in the Church has raged since the very outset. Rather than step…
The road we walk is paved with alleluias
This time last year, a friend of mine was telling me about beginning what she called a period of an ‘active practice of gratitude’. She had been reading a work by Dr Brené Brown, a research professor who studies courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy. The book in question, The Gifts of Imperfection, demonstrates the science…
Nina Mattiello Azadeh 