Monthly Archives: "January 2015"

Victor Codina SJ. The ecclesial and world impact of Pope Francis is not fundamentally attributed to his discourses and talks, which many have not been read completely, but to his symbolic gestures (embracing children, kissing the handicapped, eating with the Vatican workers in the cafeteria, living outside the Apostolic Palace, traveling in a small run-around car…) and some of his images and graphic expressions captured and easily understood by everyone. These phrases, coined amidst a homily or a text, have great evocative and determining power; they are like the modernRead More
CHILE, mda. It is “an invitation to draw closer in a spirit of faith -- both personally and as a community -- to a text that adds a climatic and providential message to the jubilee celebrations of the centenary of the Covenant of Love” (Prologue). It is a small book with 56 pages, which is coming onto the market in five languages in these days. It contains the message of Pope Franics to the Schoenstatt Movement “to an ecclesial movement of renewal during a moment of grace, both in theRead More
mda. Pope Francis surprises us and upends many of our secure outlooks on life. Stereotypical images of our enemies, about which we were so certain, such as, “the media who are always against the church and the Pope” collapse, while many “very” Catholic media and commentators, which liked to label themselves as “faithful to the Pope”, suddenly find that they are having difficulties with him. There are quite a number of Christian journalists and opinion makers who sow suspicion and accuse the Pope of creating confusion among the Faithful. OnRead More