All the lessons I have gained from the Rise Up programme can be summed up in the quote from Christus Vivit I received at the last group session we had together:
“As you work to achieve your dreams, make the most of each day and do your best to let each moment brim with love.”
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I was once asked, by a friend who was not religious, why the Church required us to ‘forgive everyone’. How was it fair that you could just say sorry, and it would all be forgotten and wiped away?
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I was once asked, by a friend who was not religious, why the Church required us to ‘forgive everyone’. How was it fair that you could just say sorry, and it would all be forgotten and wiped away?
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The Catholic Church in England and Wales welcomes the Report from the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse relating to the institutional response of the Church in its duty of care to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation. We thank the IICSA Panel for their work. The Report will now inform the ongoing reform and improvement of safeguarding in all aspects of the Church’s life.
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The Catholic Church in England and Wales welcomes the Report from the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse relating to the institutional response of the Church in its duty of care to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation. We thank the IICSA Panel for their work. The Report will now inform the ongoing reform and improvement of safeguarding in all aspects of the Church’s life.
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New restrictions, announced on 31 October and set to come into force from Thursday 5 November, state that “places of worship will be closed” with exceptions for funerals, broadcast acts of worship, individual prayer, essential voluntary public services, formal childcare, and some other exempted activities. These restrictions will once again make participation in the celebration of Mass unlawful.
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In this 8th CV Connect webinar we heard stories from our spiritual fathers and mothers in the faith, the clergy and consecrated. All our guests are men and women who have generously given their life in service to the Lord and and His Church. We want to know how, in theses extraordinary circumstances, a Seminarian, a Deacon, Religious Sisters, Priests, a Consecrated Virgin and a Bishop, have responded to the challenges and opportunities of lockdown.
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For this CV Connect Webinar, we were joined by speaker and author Chris Stefanick (founder of Real Life Catholic). Chris is an internationally acclaimed speaker who goes around the world inviting people into a dynamic, life changing encounter with God through Jesus in His Catholic Church.
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A month ago, the system for organ donation changed from ‘opt-in’ to ‘deemed consent’, otherwise known as ‘opt-out’. The Catholic Church is a huge supporter in principle of organ donation, but this move has caused concern.
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For this CV Connect interview, Catholic Voices interviewed Fiona O’Reilly who is Director of Global Strategy for Divine Renovation which inspires and equips parishes to be missional and through them bring people to Jesus.
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As part of our CV Connect series, Catholic Voices interviewed Fr. Steve Grunow who is CEO of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, and is a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago.
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In this time of the Coronavirus pandemic we spoke to Fr Laurence Lew, a Dominican friar, Promoter General of the Holy Rosary, and Rector of London's Rosary Shrine.
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Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI raised eyebrows around the world when, in a letter to the Church in Poland marking the centenary of the birth of Pope St John Paul II, he pointed to what he sees as a profound thematic unity between the papacies of the Polish Pope and his Argentine successor, Pope Francis.
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