- Written by: Tomas Halik
Revolution of Mercy and a New Ecumenism
https://catholicoutlook.org/the-revolution-of-mercy-and-a-new-ecumenism/
By Monsignor Tomáš Halík, 12 December 2020
Msgr. Tomáš Halík ThD (1948) is a professor of philosophy and sociology of religion at Charles University in Prague and president of the Czech Christian Academy. During the communist era, he worked as a secretly ordained priest in the so-called underground church. He is a recipient of the Templeton Prize and honorary doctorates from the Universities of Oxford and Erfurt. His books have been translated into twenty languages.
- Written by: Anne Foley
- Written by: Clare Cobb
Waiting in Silence
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Words and music: Carey Landry
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Vocals by Clare Cobb
Music arranged and played by Pete Cobb
- Written by: Fr James Alison
- Written by: Joseph O’Hanlon
We must fight to keep open our church doors. But we must be sure which church doors to keep open in these darkest of days. The church is never a place. In its formative days, those frightened people hidden away with Mary in an upper room, were the church, charged by the Holy Spirit to take to the streets. They were inspired to embrace the opportunities and dangers of telling the story where the people were. They were empowered to proclaim “a man crucified and killed”, a man “attested by God”, a man “God raised up”. The story was first told, not in church nor from pulpits. It was told at the corners of busy Jerusalem streets.
The language of the Crib is a story that must be told amidst the noise of the narrative of commerce. The Crib must be allowed to witness where a thousand witnesses to naked commerce and mindless extravagance stand in gaudy array.