Reflections

Seeking the good of the other

Thursday 6 June 2013

MARRIAGE has been described as the ultimate friendship. This friendship should be founded upon a true and authentic love that wants, more than anything else, the good of the other.

Interpreting Vatican II today Part Five: What is continuity?

Thursday 6 June 2013

The calm after the storm

Monday 27 May 2013

THE experience of divorce was initially like ‘a death’ for Anne Meli, but now she sees it as a turning point in her life journey.

Interpreting Vatican II today

Monday 6 April 2013

HAVING considered extreme positions, a challenge needs to be faced. If you can demonstrate either from a traditionalist or liberal stance that the council was a rupture with the past, then the Second Vatican Council was a false council.

Immersed into hearts and lives

Monday 6 April 2013

IN August last year, amid a busy semester of classes and two jobs, I booked return flights to New York City. I had secured an internship with a Catholic institute that participates in the United Nations’ social policy debates, and I was excited about the prospect of sitting in on the General Assembly meetings at the UN headquarters.

To show people how to love

Monday 6 April 2013

BY Easter Monday, it would be the shot seen around the world. But a day earlier, Christiana Gondreau could not have imagined that a brief encounter she and her eight-year-old son Dominic had with Pope Francis in the middle of St Peter’s Square after his first Easter Mass would touch the hearts of many around the globe.

The grace of retirement

Friday 26 April 2013

FROM 1945 until 1994, my career had been dedicated to religious life, Catholic education and adult faith development. So, I faced retirement with little direction other than my marriage to Louise, seven children and a desire to become more involved in community affairs and parish life.

Interpreting Vatican II today

Wednesday 10 April 2013

BISHOP Elliott addresses the ‘traditionalist’ positions, where we are faced with what first presents itself as a pastoral way of interpreting the council,’ in the third instalment of his Interpreting Vatican II today series for Kairos Catholic Journal.

Holy Week

Friday 22 March 2013

IN Holy Week, which begins on Palm Sunday, 24 March, Catholics participate in ancient religious practices which continue through until Easter Sunday. This reflection article explains the meaning and history of these traditional Catholic practices.

Interpreting Vatican II today

Wednesday 13 Maech 2013

THIS is the second in a series by Bishop Elliott which began in Kairos Volume 24, issue 1, in which he reflects on the spirit and outcomes of the second Vatican Council.