... As we begin our Lenten journey and think about the challenges that we will face during this ... that Jesus regularly withdrew to a quiet place to pray for support and guidance from his heavenly father (e.g. Lk 5:16; 6:12), ... to be planned. What was going to be his main purpose in his work? To convince his hearers of God’s love for them and of how God was about ...
... responded to the country’s economic crisis with pastoral support of those most in need, but this has not been accompanied by ‘social ... in its spiritual tradition. The economic problem that our country is currently experiencing, with poverty and rising unemployment, ...
... and thinkers) was a new way of looking at things, which sees our environment, and even ourselves, as acting not always in accordance with ... older and more distinguished the better, would be cited to support the alternative view. The writings of the ancient authorities – most ...
... of life to natural death, from the wealthiest community to our poorest neighbourhoods, is excluded from the table of life. [2] ‘I ... Church’s teaching on economics. In so doing I hope to give support to Bernardin’s profound insight that the Church’s teachings on ...
... at flickr.com Concluding our study of Caritas in Veritate , Austen Ivereigh looks at Pope ... and the market. The state and the market should serve and support civil society. But so powerful have both become that the reverse is ...
... Our series on First World War literature continues as Niall Leahy SJ explains ... of the War experience. Barker puts her imagination to work on a remarkable wartime episode – the concurrent stays of celebrated war ... of the War. In an effort to mitigate any rise in public support for him, the establishment pronounces that Sassoon is no longer of ...
... before a deeper, transcendent reality. At this point our attention is drawn away from rules as the ethically absolute (or not), ... his position by fellow philosophers (including several who support desire-based reasons). The final part – and in some ways the most ...
... ago and see even a brief pause from warfare realised in our time? Many believe we can. Since 1993 the United Nations General ... breakfast to someone less well off than ourselves who will support their family member competing in the Games. In 2002 Yusuf from ...
... received a stipend from the Portuguese. Without financial support they could not have operated at all, yet there was always a risk their ... the forest? … He is definitely the enemy. Now let us alert our king.’ While they were talking, the messengers said to Lucifer; ‘O ...
... of young men, armed with machetes, forced their way into our house. They started slashing at everybody in the house and they assumed ... was refused leading to new suffering: government financial support and accommodation was stopped and I ended up spending nights on the ...
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