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 […]
St Ninian’s Day (Scotland’s First Saint 397 AD) Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Scotland’s capital city, Edinburgh, on the Feast of St Ninian September 16th 2010, to start a four […]