Alessandro Serenelli was the murderer of eleven year old Maria Goretti. This article features a letter which he wrote towards the end of his life. When he was twenty he made sexual advances towards Maria, his neighbour, but she refused to submit. He stabbed her fourteen times. She died the next day. Her last words […]Read More

“You can’t really explain it, you have to be there to understand it,” says Anna Whitehead, a young Londoner from the Diocese of Westminster who attended World Youth Day 2016 in Poland.  World Youth Day is about good memories, good input and interesting discoveries “My head abuzz with crazy memories, snippets of talks, and interesting […]Read More

World Youth Day 2016 was held in Poland with the theme:  “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall find mercy.” (Mt 5:7) Abigail Pace a Maltese youth and Sarah Borg, a Maltese pilgrim who traveled with MAGIS share their comments on their experience. Sarah: “Throughout this year, only God knows the number of times I […]Read More

A youthworker describes a particular moment of accompanying a young  adult who had just been released out of prison and was searching for meaning… The young man’s reason for coming to see me was not particularly plausible. I answered his question, but he did not leave. He wanted to talk, though not about a particular […]Read More

The words “cohabitation” and “Catholic” do not really go together. Clara* had been living with her boyfriend for 18 months. When she went to confession, the priest did not want to give her absolution. It was then when she asked herself, “Is what I’m doing so wrong?!” Clara shares her experience of cohabitation and why […]Read More