On May 19th Peace campaigner and Chaplain to Pax Christi, Bruce Kent is visiting Downing Street and embassies of the other nuclear countries to read part of the Treaty of the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. He will also be delivering a personal letter to the Prime Minister and to every Ambassador requesting that they sign the Treaty. They are using the hashtag #pilgrimage4peace, check it out for more information on this and the below! Pax Christi members supporters and friends are making a Pilgrimage for Peace between International Conscientious Objectors' Day (15 May) and the feast of the Blessed Franz...
For me, as I look back, just a few days on, at the two launch events for my new book last weekend, the most remarkable thing is - how much I can't remember!
The Jesuit theologian Gerald O'Collins has authored or co-authored over seventy books. He taught for more than thirty years at that flagship of theology, the Gregorian University in Rome. His students have become professors in universities, colleges and seminaries around the world.
Obviously, I'm dogged by the same questions as everyone else: why pray? Does it work? How do you know? Is anyone listening? How can it work anyway if millions of folk are all praying at the same time about different things?