- Written by: Alberto Fabio Ambrosio
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'Are there any good Catholics in this time of coronavirus?'
Italian-born Dominican theologian believes the coronavirus pandemic can lead society and the Church back to the basics
Alberto Fabio Ambrosio
Luxembourg
I feel close to the cry from outside the Church in the face of its cowardice. Of course, there's a cry from the inside, too. But it seems to me that it's being raised hesitantly when it should be extremely strong.
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- Written by: Alex Walker
THE GOD WHO SPEAKS ...
ACTA
LECTIONARY COMMENTARY
FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT
YEAR A
YEAR OF MATTHEW
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- Written by: Patricia Loughran
It feels very strange to be writing a homily which will never be heard by anyone. ‘Unprecedented’ is the word these days to describe the situation we are currently living through. People in previous centuries, of course, lived through much more serious times than the we are doing, but we all have to live through our own times, and these are ours.
And so the big question is what do we make of them? The spirituality of Ignatius Loyola is summed up in the phrase Finding God in All Things. So, if this is right, where is God in the current crisis? There will be those who will do what they always do and see this virus as some kind of punishment from God. Have nothing to do with this kind of rubbish. It’s utter nonsense. God is not like that and never has been. You could say that mother-nature is somehow fighting back, urging us to look again at what we are doing to ourselves and the environment. The virus started, after all, through a lack of proper care in the way we treat animals. And so, as so often happens, we are the cause of our own misfortune. But mother-nature herself is only a metaphor, not God.