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Being Catholic in Zanzibar
Mathew Limo* knows what to expect when he goes to church with his family. On the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar, where 98 percent of the population is Muslim, Christians are given the cold shoulder. The past year has been characterized by renewed violence against Christians. So far the violence remains aimed at religious, but the […]

St. Francis of Assisi
The Shalom vocation is a vocation with single traits influenced by the Franciscan Spirituality. Along with St. Teresa of Avila, St. Francis of Assisi is a teacher of spiritual life for the members of Shalom Community. He is a safe way that the catholic mystique presents us. We are inspired by him to cry out […]

Editing our own genes?
Several serious diseases are known to occur because of defects or mutations in our DNA. Curing such diseases could, in principle, be carried out by rewriting the DNA to fix the mutated base pairs. Yet, until recently scientists have remained largely stymied in their attempts to directly modify genes in a living animal. Findings described […]

Pope Francis has appointed Toronto Auxiliary Bishop William McGrattan as the next Bishop of Peterborough.
Pope Francis has appointed Toronto Auxiliary Bishop William McGrattan as the next Bishop of Peterborough. He will be dearly missed by our archdiocese, and we pray for him as he embarks on his new assignment. News release: http://bit.ly/1jYBR76 Information regarding the installation of Bishop McGrattan in Peterborough will be announced in the coming days. Bishop McGrattan […]

Solemnity of the Annunciation – Nazareth – Israel
“Let us not fear, the Holy Spirit is coming upon us.” These are the words that His Beatitude Patriarch Fouad Twal spoke during his homily on the Solemnity of the Annunciation on the 25th of March in the Basilica in Nazareth. It was in this church, where since the earliest times Christians have venerated the […]

Pope’s Ash Wednesday Homily
“Why do we have to return to God? Because there are things that are not well in us, in society, in the Church and we are in need of changing, of turning, of being converted!” Here is a translation of the Pope’s homily from the celebration of the Eucharist today in the Basilica of Saint […]

Pope Francis at weekly General Audience: the scandal of division
Pope Francis devoted the catechetical portion of his weekly General Audience on Wednesday to the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which this year is dedicated to a question taken from the First Letter to the Corinthians: “Has Christ Been Divided?”. The English-language synthesis, read out after the main reflection delivered by Pope Francis in […]

Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, appointed to the Congregation for Bishops
Pope Francis has appointed the Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, to the Congregation for Bishops, among other new members. Archbishop Nichols was installed as the 11th Archbishop of Westminster, London, after Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor’s retirement. He is also President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales since 2009. Archbishop Vincent said after his […]
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