“Compassion is contagious. When you receive it, you want to share it.” These words spoken by Dr Khurram Malik, CEO of Hope Worldwide Pakistan, summarise beautifully the hope that was…
"Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances." (St Vincent de Paul) The volunteers of the Society…
Dr Joe Grayland, a New Zealand priest, introduces his book Horizons which is a series of essays on current issues in the Church that gather around synodality and its future,…
Numbers 21:4-9; Philippians 2:6-11; John 3:13-17 The Israelites had complained about their lives in Egypt and were happy to have escaped slavery. The first step towards freedom and a new…
Wisdom 9:13-18; Philemon 9-10,12-17; Luke 14:25-33 The Book of Wisdom challenges anybody who pretends to know what God meant to say or do. Jesus taught us to pray “Thy will…
Prof Thomas O'Loughlin has been a frequent guest on Muffin Talk. Here are a few snippets from longer interviews recorded with him over the years. He is originally from Dublin,…
Ecclesiasticus 3:19-21,30-31; Hebrews 12:18-19,22-24a; Luke 14:1,7-14 Ecclesiasticus, which was often called in Latin ‘Liber Ecclesiasticus’ (Church Book) or the Book of Sirach, is a book of guidelines and advice on…
Are we moving towards religious hybridity?Hybridity, a term that derives from biology and from mixing two species of plants, is a term that has been used for centuries. The discussions…
Jeremiah 38:4-6,8-10; Hebrews 12:1-4; Luke 12:49-53 The account about Jeremiah, a major prophet from the so-called Babylonian Period (6th century BCE), describes how a messenger is made responsible for the…