Building Integrity for Mission
Assisi, 31 July 2023 Below is a PDF form (in Italian and English) from the President of the Diocesan Foundation ” Assisi – Shrine of Dispossesion, Don Cesare Provenzi, to participate in the ” International Prize for Francis of Assisi Read More …
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SPIRITUAL EXERCISES AND ECOLOGICAL CONVERSION(10 – 16 June 2024) SPIRITUAL EXERCISES AS ECOLOGICAL CONVERSION(17-26 June 2024) Cave of Saint Ignatius (Manresa-Spain) As a result of the International Symposium “Mystagogies of the Exercises 500 years later” (June 2022), the Spiritual Read More …
Dear JPIC coordinators/animators, The US Conference of Major Superiors of Men is pleased to offer a JPIC webinar on restorative justice, featuring Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy of Catholic Mobilizing Network, Judge Thomas Donnelly of the Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network, and Read More …
In his letter for this year’s Season of Creation, the theme of which is ‘Listen to the voice of creation’ Pope Francis says that as we listen, we can hear in the voice of creation a discordant note: a sweet song in praise of the Creator; and, an anguished plea, lamenting our mistreatment of this our common home. She weeps and implores us to put an end to our abuses and to her destruction. Fr. Claude Mostowik MSC writes.
Thomas Merton expert Kick Bras wrote a book about the natural mysticism of Merton. How has that changed his own view on climate, sustainability and nature? In the notebooks of the famous American Trappist monk Thomas Merton (1915-1968) we discover a natural mysticism and an ecological ethics. These are not only reflected in the books Merton wrote, but also in his diaries published twenty years after his death. In lyrical terms, the monk describes how he experiences nature and what it means for his contemplative life.
In his annual message for World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Pope Francis stated that “our societies will have a ‘colorful’ future, enriched by diversity and by cultural exchanges,” stressing the need to learn to live together, in harmony and Read More …