The U.S. bishops approved the Order for the Blessing of a Child in the Womb for use in the dioceses of the United States with a 223-1 vote November 11, at their General Assembly in Baltimore. The bishops also approved a Spanish version of the blessing of a child in a womb of a pregnant [...]
Miek Pot is a spiritual counsellor, living in Bruges in Belgium. She came onto the State We’re In to explain why for 12 years she had lived in silence, far from the madding crowd, in a Belgian convent. Miek Pot has always been a person of extremes. In Leiden, as a student, this meant she [...]
There are several healings of blind men in the Gospels, but today’s is unique (Jn. 9:1-38). It is much more elaborate than the others, and the whole event and the accompanying dialogues are points of departure for theological reflection. We are offered here not simply the fact of a divine healing, but the deeper meaning [...]
