An open letter to the world’s children 8 reasons why I’m worried, and hopeful, about the next generation. Dear children of today and of tomorrow, Thirty years ago, against the backdrop of a changing world order – the fall of the Berlin Wall, the decline of apartheid, the birth of the world wide web – […]

 One year ago, Fr. Luigi Macalli was abducted in the middle of the night, from his parish Church in Niger. The priest remains missing, and his friends and family say they have no idea where he is. “On Tuesday, 17 September 2019, we commemorate the first anniversary of the abduction of our Italian SMA confrere, […]

Once a man is ordained a priest for the Catholic Church, he acts, according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, “in persona Christi capitis”: in the person of Christ the Head. During the ordination ceremony, the priest’s hands are anointed with oil, he lies prostrate on the ground to symbolize the laying down of […]