Building Integrity for Mission
Staff, students and guests were delighted to be able to gather in-person and online to celebrate the conclusion of the Siloam and Spiritual Leaders year. Our wonderful students graduated from their year of study with us, and soon move into 2022 Read More …
Symposium on the Priesthood 17th – 19th February 2022, Pope Paul VI Hall, Vatican City. Theme: Toward a Fundamental Theology of Priesthood. Online Registration via link available.
THE NATIONAL STRATEGY TO PREVENT AND RESPOND TO CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE 2021–2030 (Australia). This guide will help children and young people understand child sexual abuse, how and where to get help, and how the National Strategy is improving Australia’s response to child sexual abuse. When this guide refers to a child, it refers to anyone under the age of 18 years. This guide is recommended for children aged 9 years and up.
On November 22, Pope Francis gave a card, “The Beatitudes of the Bishop” to all members of the CEI (the Italian conference of bishops) meeting in Rome. The text offers encouragement and pastoral guidance not only to the Italian bishops but to the more than 5,000 Catholic bishops in the world today.
A global online conference on child safeguarding for faith-based organisations. Join forces with us to put safeguarding at the heart of every organisation’s mission!
This Faith and child safeguarding summit provides a platform for religious institutions, faith-based organisations, academics, and religious leaders to come together, exchange insights, experiences, challenges and best practices on child safeguarding in religious and faith-based contexts.
The question is asked about how to inform as many people as possible about the new changes to canon law Book VI. One solution is to register for an upcoming webinar, free of charge, sponsored by Saint Paul University’s Faculty of Canon Law in Canada and moderated by Bishop John Renken.
No. 244 of the journal of missiology Spiritus, produced by the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) for free dissemination. This is the Latin American edition.
International Leadership Development Program organized by Faith and Praxis in 2022. It will be a multilingual program with simultaneous translation. Registration is possible until December 20, 2021 at secretariat@faithandpraxis.org
We have looked briefly at the tension between our Conscious Needs and Unconscious Needs on one hand, and our Human and Theo-Centric Self-Transcending Values on the other. We saw how our perception of reality can be influenced by our needs especially when they have been over-met, under-met, or distorted by hurts or expectations. What does this mean for our Christian living and what implications does the interaction of our needs and values have on our Christian decision-making especially in responding to a perceived religious or ministerial vocation.
In these greatly challenging days, I have the sense that we are building a new kind of collective wisdom, one that for the moment remains mysterious. New communities are springing up around invitations to think together about issues or be in practice, or listen to new ways of looking at the world. Although we are in the time of “social distancing”, the space between us is somehow growing smaller.