PAX CHRISTI Mass for Peace today


The “MESSENGER” dates from 1888. Donal Neary SJ has been the editor for more than 10 years. I was delighted to read in the March 2026 edition that the MESSENGER supports…
A Sense of Wonder (Socrates) ‘Love you.’ The schools close today. Interviews have already begun; these aren’t the most exciting aspects of pastoral ministry. I will miss the teachers gathered…
This was sent to me by a friend. Worthy of a repost here… https://vimeo.com/55083284
Peter Steinfels, a former religion reporter and columnist for the New York Times and a former editor in chief of Commonweal, has analyzed the more than 1,000 pages of the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report and he believes the public has been misled.
Seamus Ahearne writes in this November of death; war, accident, murder; “the news is rotten with criminality; with stabbings; with shootings; with gangland outrages……….I think the culture of faith has to be rediscovered……However, every day is a privileged day. Every day is full of life, despite the dying. Every day is full of surprises. Every day throws around those ‘rumours of angels.’”
Commemorating the 175th anniversary of Black ‘47 Historians of the Great Famine have long lamented the lack of local research reflected in the paucity of regional studies and how areas well…