DEAR SISTERS AND BROTHERS,

What has caught your attention? COVID-19? Black Lives Matter? The easing of Lockdown? The car-crash of the economy? Maybe none of these. Despite the constant narrow-casting of just a few news items, maybe your attention has been focussed closer to home; how your family has coped, the longing for a hug, a touch, a reminder of basic, earthy humanity? We are, after all, whole human beings, not just cyphers for a select, repetitious cycle of news.

For myself, although those key news items have held my attention, my prayers and my concern, as a priest, has been on another layer of concern these past weeks. Let me share it with you. Read More…