The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord (February 2) marked the Church’s Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life. Another way of looking at it is a day on which the Church celebrates our way of life - not as a separate object of curiosity but as integral to the life of the whole ecclesial community, writes CRA President, Fr Peter Jones OSA.

CRA draws your attention to the Message of Pope Francis for the celebration of the World Day of Peace (1 January 2023).

At Christmas we celebrate of one of our faith’s core beliefs - the Incarnation, writes CRA President Fr Peter Jones OSA. God has intimately shared life with us in Christ by taking on the fullness of our humanity. Mary, Mother of Christ, witnesses to the fullest expression of Christian discipleship with her welcoming of Christ in her person and her heart.  

To meet God we must reach Him where he is; we need to lower ourselves, to make ourselves small, like Jesus did by coming to birth in a stable, says Pope Francis. 

Who is going to heaven? Is celibacy ever a good idea? Is Scripture a world for women? Theologian and musician Verbum Dei Sister, Dr Maeve Heaney, posed these questions in her latest book ‘Suspended God: Music and a Theology of Doubt’, reports The Catholic Leader.