Spirituality of the Beatitudes Religion_ Meditations Catholic bishops preparing a pastoral

Catholic bishops preparing a pastoral letter on the environment

"Raimon Panikkar is a unique thinker of our age

and has directed a team of more than fifty international scholars in a multi-year study on the missiology of Western Culture

and The Ministry of Reconciliation: Spirituality and Strategies (all from Orbis)

terrorism and barbarity

Spirituality of the Beatitudes Religion_ Meditations Catholic bishops preparing a pastoralThe Beatitudes from Jesus's Sermon on the Mount offer a succinct summary of his essential teaching for Christians. In probing the meaning of these eight verses, Michael Crosby cuts to the heart of Matthew's Gospel: a spiritual message that is at once personal and deeply social. Crosby posits that Matthew's Gospel was written for a more affluent church community. As such, his Gospel offers a particularly telling challenge to Christians of the developed