Keeping Children Safe – Conference

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.

Section 9 – Self-Understanding – 3 Dimensions

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.

Looking for signs in a time of confusing stories

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.

For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, and Mission Vademecum for the Synod on Synodality

The Church of God is convoked in Synod. The path entitled “For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, and Mission” was solemnly opened on the 9th – 10th of October 2021 in Rome and then in each particular Church.
A basic question prompts and guides us: How does this “journeying together,” which takes place today on different levels (from the local level to the universal one), allow the Church to proclaim the Gospel in accordance with the mission entrusted to Her?

Ongoing Formation – Continuing Renewal

RENEWAL and continuing formation are more than synonymous terms. They seem to mean one and the same thing. There are many religious who expect this ‘ongoing formation’ to solve all their present and future problems. They believe that it will ensure perseverance and fidelity, provide a bulwark which will safeguard their own proper identity against the host of changes which threaten to erode it; that it will reveal the secrets of self-education and creativity, and enable them to see what provision should be taken for the future. Read more …

Informed Consent and Advanced Decision of Treatment

“Informed Consent and Advanced Decision of Treatment (ADT): Challenges for Members of Institutes of Consecrated Life and the possible approach in the care of Brothers and Sisters?”. The two webinars will be held on the zoom platform provided by the UISG on Tuesday, 9 November and Tuesday, 16 November, from 2 pm to 5 pm (Rome time).The webinars are addressed in particular to General and Provincial Superiors and their counsellors or those responsible in assisting the sick.