Vocation and Christian Discipleship   Pope Benedict XVI has identified  a ‘crisis of faith’[1] that has overtaken our society where it can no longer be taken for granted that Christian […]

Education and Catechesis   Catholic education endeavours to shape the whole person, it does this by nurturing an ethos that fulfils our deepest aspirations about what it is to become […]

Holiness, Sainthood and the Life of Virtue    Pope Benedict XVI encourages both young and old to become saints, lovers of God,[1] to become so seized by Christianity that they […]

The Universal Call to Transcendence   The search for happiness and fulfilment is a basic and legitimate desire of being human. Pope Benedict XVI, drawing on the insights of St […]

Liturgy and the Work of God.[1]   Liturgy or the common worship of the Church[2] is something we experience when we are immersed in the richness of faith and prayer […]

The Legacy of the Papal Visit   The four day State visit of Pope Benedict XVI concluded with a farewell address at Birmingham’s international airport on September 19th 2010.The visit […]

Benedict St. (1985) Rule of St Benedict, Sheed & Ward, London. Benedict XVI, of the Supreme Pontiff (2005), Encyclical Letter Deus Caritas Est, The Vatican, Rome. Benedict XVI, of the […]