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Making world history
In this interview with Pat Coyle of Irish Jesuit Communications, Austen Ivereigh talks about the content of the document and the communal discernment process that those present engaged in, in order to produce it. He also wrote about his ‘insider’ experience in an article for the US Jesuit publication America.
I helped write the first global synod document. Here’s what we heard from Catholics around the world.
At the end of our first day in Frascati in late September, struck by the solemnity of the task that faced us, I messaged a friend to say that many of my fellow “experts” felt the hand of history and the weight of responsibility on our shoulders. “I hope you’re keeping a diary,” my friend pinged back.
A letter to break our hearts
In Laudato Si’, history’s most-read encyclical letter, Pope Francis talks of the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor. Now a powerful new film lets the audience see and hear those cries.
Pope Francis and the gift of ‘overflow’
“The title of his address in Belfast was “A New Imagination of the Possible: Pope Francis and the Gift of ‘Overflow’. A dialogue with Dr Austen Ivereigh, papal biographer and collaborator” and you can listen to it above.”
Pope Francis and the liturgy – a plea to put aside polemics and ego
Pope Francis’ recent letter to all the faithful on the liturgy is a plea to put aside polemics and ego, and to marvel at the liturgy’s truth and beauty.
Pope Francis' reforms make the heresy-hunting Vatican of John Paul II barely recognizable
'Praedicate Evangelium' is nothing less than a conversion of how power is exercised in the church
Bringing Pope Francis to Belfast
About recording a message with Pope Francis for the remarkable 4 Corners Festival in Belfast (30 January to 6 February): the talk I gave at St Anne’s Cathedral opening the festival, and a lecture I gave at St Brigid’s parish.