by Jennie Murphy | Jun 7, 2023 | Monthly Reflection
We pray that the international community may commit in a concrete way to ensuring the abolition of torture and guarantee support to victims and their families. Pope Francis invites us this month to focus our attention on the abolition of torture, imploring God to...
by Jennie Murphy | May 3, 2023 | Monthly Reflection
Church movements and groups are great to have. They beautifully create a sense of family, belonging, and identity on those who take part in them. Those who join Church movements and groups tend to appreciate family, belonging, and identity due to the natural bonding...
by Jennie Murphy | Apr 5, 2023 | Monthly Reflection
Years ago, I traveled with Catholic Relief Services on a solidarity visit to South Sudan, where I met young people affected by decades of violent conflict in their country. Willy, a young father, described the pain of separation from his family, who had...
by Jennie Murphy | Mar 15, 2023 | Monthly Reflection
When Pope Francis prays “for the victims of abuse,” who are the victims? Are they children or adults? What injustices are pointed out? Is it sexual violence, abuse of authority, manipulation, or complicit silence? Who are the authors of the abuse? Priests, religious,...
by Jennie Murphy | Mar 1, 2023 | Monthly Reflection
Abuse comes in many forms and the impact is often silent and unseen. Those who are subjected to abuse experience a level of trauma that is difficult for others to comprehend, in part because each victim and survivor experience it differently. The harmful events touch...
by Jennie Murphy | Jan 31, 2023 | Monthly Reflection
God used a Catholic parish to change my life. Which is strange because I wasn’t Catholic. I was a Protestant university student looking for a place to pray. Protestant churches were closed, but an old parish church a few blocks from campus was open,...
