‘Let us go forward’
Celebrating – and collaborating with – our Holy Father ‘Bob’
Celebrating – and collaborating with – our Holy Father ‘Bob’
In every community of faith – as in any other society or family – there are always those who take on roles of enormous yet underappreciated significance.
I was reading David Brooks’ “The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life,” when Pope Francis died. This paragraph, pulled from Brooks’ conclusion, struck me as almost the definition of the pope’s ministry to the Western world:
It has not been surprising to see how much coverage secular news and social media have given to the passing of Pope Francis and the transition to a papal conclave.
I am sure many of you are familiar with the television series about the life of Jesus called “The Chosen.”
I was raised a Roman Catholic and essentially inhaled the religious ethos of Roman Catholicism.
In his book “Jesus of Nazareth,” Pope Benedict XVI addressed the reality of healing as a central aspect of the Christian faith. “Healing is an essential dimension of the apostolic mission and of Christianity.
Anyone who has ever had the misfortune to drive me to an airport, meet me at a train station or share the trunk of a car with me on a road trip can tell you one thing: I do not travel lightly.