Author: wmc

The church offers us guidelines to help our faith and Christ’s values shape our reflection on the issues we face.

Instead of their usual lunch, the children brought a donation for Caritas or a food item for the local food bank.

Six months after the death of a much loved student, St Catherine’s College teacher, Lucy McLeod, has her hair chopped off to raise money for a cancer cure.

The call to religious life or priesthood comes in many guises. Sometimes it is a felt experience of God beckoning, maybe at a time of retreat or reflection. Sometimes the call is offered in a conversation with another person…

‘As RNDM contemplative missionaries we are drawn into the incredible mystery of divine relationship where we recognise ourselves called not servants but friends, partners, co-creators with God!’

As well as reflecting the beauty of our world, an authentic media should be striving to give a rounded view. This means lifting a few stones and peering underneath at what is often most disturbing.

Looking back on past issues of Wel-com, we see how it has fulfilled some of the key ideas of Pope Benedict XVI

Archbishop John Dew has taken up the tradition begun by Pope John Paul II at the start of his pontificate, of writing to the priests on what is known as the feast of the priesthood, Holy Thursday. We reprint here the letter Archbishop John wrote to the priests of the archdiocese on the eve of Holy Thursday, March 20, 2008.

Fr John’s ability to speak in a way that brings the gospel into what we do and are faced with makes him a valuable person to come to the archdiocese.