Communion of Unity

Journalist, author and biographer of Pope Francis, Dr. Austen Ivereigh was the guest speaker at this year’s Knock Novena on 14 August 2024. His talk was entitled ‘Hope for a Changing Church‘. In this interview with Pat Coyle of the Irish Jesuit Communication Centre, he recounts the themes covered in his talk, concentrating specifically on that of “communion of unity and fraternity”. He says there are two different kinds of unity, one being “unity in hatred” which we are seeing more of today particularly from those on the ‘far right’.

Dr Ivereigh discusses Pope Francis’ words and actions in the face of this hatred and how we as individuals can “offer the first hand of friendship” towards the communion of unity.