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Our overnight vigil for National Youth Sunday and Ebola
Lucy Jardine, parish youth-worker and CAFOD’s Youth Outreach and Events Coordinator talks about her youth group’s Ebola-themed National Youth Sunday event and whether the sleepless night was worth it…...
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Lent: a time for compassion
By Rachel McCarthy, Theology Programme Communications Coordinator The season of Lent is fast upon us. It is time to prepare for the traditional acts of giving, praying and fasting, as we journey with...
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A people of hope
This blog is written by Rachel McCarthy who works in the CAFOD Theology Programme. It is the first of a series inviting you to share your joys and hopes, and to pray for people living in poverty at...
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International Women’s Day: “There won’t be peace without inclusion or equality”
Carmenza Alvarez is a human rights defender in Colombia and works for an organisation supported by CAFOD and Caritas, Women’s Initiative for Peace. The role is a dangerous one, in 2014 alone 614 human...
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Challenge indifference this Lent
Father Augusto Zampini Davies is a RC priest, Moral Theologian and theological advisor to CAFOD. In the first in a series of blogs reflecting on love of creation, he explains how we can confront the...
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Flame2: Expressing our faith this Lent
Nathaniel and Remi are CAFOD young leaders and students at St Joseph’s College, Reading. They tell us about their experience at Flame2. As we progress through the season of Lent, it is important that...
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Easter: Christ the redeemer of all creation
Father Augusto Zampini Davies is a RC priest, Moral Theologian and theological advisor to CAFOD. In the second of a series of blogs, Father Augusto explains how caring for creation is at the heart of...
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Listening to the cry of the earth
Today on International Mother Earth Day, Rachel McCarthy from the CAFOD Theology Programme reflects on listening to creation. This is the third of a series of blogs ahead of Pope Francis’ encyclical on...
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Art and soul of Romero
Hugh Gibbons is a CAFOD volunteer from Bracknell in the Portsmouth diocese who has led several community art projects to spread the word about Blessed Oscar Romero’s life and legacy. I think he’d...
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Oscar Romero lives on in the people of El Salvador
Denise is Diocesan Manager in Brentwood. She visited El Salvador in 2004 for the 15th Anniversary of the Martyrs of El Salvador. To mark the beatification of Blessed Oscar Romero, she tells us how his...
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‘Our common home’: a challenge and an opportunity
This blog is written by Linda Jones, Head of the CAFOD Theology Programme. Linda shares her initial response to the Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si’. I have to admit that sometimes reading Church...
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A New Heaven and a New Earth: Pope Francis on Our Common Home
This blog is written by Celia Deane-Drummond, who is a member of the CAFOD Theological Reference Group, and Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. She has been writing and publishing on...
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Laudato Si': Caring for the garden of creation
This blog is written by Bernard Shaw from East Anglia diocese. He has been involved with livesimply since 2009, and more recently has been part of a small CAFOD group sharing insights on Catholic...
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Who do you say I am?
This reflection and prayer, based on the gospel for Sunday 28 June, Matthew 16:13-19, were written by Matthew Sanderson, who is the Executive Assistant to the Director of CAFOD. “Who do you say I am?”...
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Laudato Si’: generating enough energy to empower the world!
Susy Brouard is CAFOD’s Theological Advisor. Susy has twelve years experience of facilitating workshops on Catholic Social Teaching. But never has she come across a text which has produced so much...
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Laudato Si’: catholic with a small ‘c’
This blog is written by Father Augusto Zampini-Davies, Theological Adviser to CAFOD. He reflects on how Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si’, is a truly universal message. Pope Francis’ new encyclical...
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Laudato Si’: a personal reflection
Kathy McVay is a CAFOD supporter from Sacred Heart parish, Bristol. Kathy reflects on her experience of reading Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si’. A song of praise Laudato Si’ is a paean to God’s...
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Synod on the Family: Listening to our sisters living in poverty
Rachel McCarthy is the Theology Programme Communications Coordinator at CAFOD. Rachel coordinates prayer and reflection material such as the Harvest Fast Day prayer. Last week, I was invited to attend...
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Climate change: The Laudato Si’ challenge
Paul Kelly is a CAFOD supporter in the Lancaster diocese. He will be travelling to Paris in December 2015 as part of a supporter delegation at the time of the UN climate talks. With the UN Summit on...
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Sr Karen: Why I’m travelling to Paris with CAFOD for climate change action
Sr Karen d’Artois OP is a Dominican nun from the Archdiocese of Westminster. She’s part of a delegation of CAFOD campaigners travelling to the UN ‘COP21’ meeting in Paris, calling on world leaders to...
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