During the month of October 2025 Muffin Talk presents a special series on interviews about Nostra Aetate. This Vatican II document was promulgated on 28 October 1965. Muffin Talk with…
Assisted dying or killing? Are the boundaries failing us?Misunderstandings of the current legal situation around Euthanasia often give the illusion that any decision about life is personal. Richard Harward shares…
Amos 6:1,4-7; 1 Timothy 6:11-16; Luke 16:19-31 One of the UN Development Goals was to end poverty by 2015. Now, 10 years after this deadline passed, it is said that…
Parrhēsia in the Gospels - speaking truth in confidence to authorities. This term appears in the writings of the New Testament over thirty times. Pope Francis also used this word,…
Social Cohesion – a vision that is often described as feeling a sense of belonging, inclusion, participation, recognition and legitimacy for all people.Dr Melissa Derby, the current New Zealand Race…
"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,…
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,…
Patrick Carolan is a Catholic activist in the United States whose values are based on the work of St Francis and St Clare of Assisi. He promotes connectedness versus indifference.…
In this Muffin Talk, Dr Joe Grayland introduces a new weekly online magazine for Catholics: Flashes of Insight. https://youtu.be/Kubr3yLmgcE