On Pilgrimage with Mary Ward App

In our present time of instant communication and ease of travel, the story of Mary Ward and her life-long desire to seek and know God’s will, can seem like a struggle way beyond human resilience. That an English woman, in Post-Reformation England, could believe the Catholic Church would approve a plan for religious women to

A prophetic message for our time

Chris Burke IBVM draws our attention to Pope Francis’ most recent encyclical “Fratelli tutti” and writes.. I imagine that every person in Mary Ward’s ever extending ‘circle of friends’ knows that our global systems are not working well. Everything we hoped for at the turn of the millennium is increasingly fragile: peace, care for the

A prophetic message for our time

Chris Burke IBVM draws our attention to Pope Francis’ most recent encyclical “Fratelli tutti” and writes..  I imagine that every person in Mary Ward’s ever extending ‘circle of friends’ knows that our global systems are not working well. Everything we hoped for at the turn of the millennium is increasingly fragile: peace, care for the