Being Greek-Cypriot, I struggle with winters: those low clouds that lower the spirits, the rain that chills the body, and the wind that batters everything. This winter has been particularly challenging.
The state of the Church
Turbulence is, so to speak, in the air and those pummelling winds seem to echo much that is happening in the Church around the world. I could write a long article on the troubles I know of: the defections, the divisions, the deviations, the discouragements, the derision – and that’s just under one letter of the alphabet! These are such turbulent