Recent Editorial

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  The world must stand by brave Taiwan

  Apr 13, 2019

  At the beginning of this year, China’s President Xi Jinping issued a veiled threat to Taiwan, saying that it “must and will be” reunited with mainland China and that the island’s de facto independence could not continue forever.

  
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  Church needs to be humble

  Apr 13, 2019

  To counteract polarisation in the Church and the country, the Catholic Church needs to approach both with humility — which is also an appropriate response to its mishandling of clerical sex abuse.

  
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  Should Catholic teaching be bent to market demands?

  Apr 05, 2019

  It took two crashes within five months and a total of 346 deaths before government agencies began answering the alarms that had been going off for years over the manner in which the fitness and safety of Boeing's 737 Max, the latest in its offerings of airliners, was determined.

  
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  Dalit Christians, Muslims seek rights in poll-bound India

  Apr 05, 2019

  Hundreds of protesting Dalit Christians and Muslims marched through India’s capital in what they said was a last-ditch effort to gain welfare benefits denied to them.

  
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  Vatican official challenges ethics of markets

  Apr 05, 2019

  Financial markets must serve the human person, rather than human beings being reduced to serving markets, a Vatican official told a conference at the University of Chicago — notably the birthplace of a strand of neoclassical economics that emphasizes the value of free markets.

  
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  Journalism and ethics after Christchurch

  Mar 28, 2019

  Since the Christchurch terror attack, working in a newsroom for some journalists has been 'hectic' to say the least.

  
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  Sino-Vatican deal significant despite religious repression

  Mar 28, 2019

  Six months ago, the Vatican and Beijing reached a provisional agreement over the appointment of bishops in China.

  
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  Praying for gender equality in Church

  Mar 22, 2019

  The leader of one of Germany’s most important female religious communities has called into question the Catholic Church’s exclusion of women from the ordained priesthood.

  
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  Christchurch mosque killer and his worldview

  Mar 22, 2019

  The monstrous act that saw 50 Muslims murdered at two mosques in Christchurch last Friday afternoon, and nearly the same number of worshippers injured (one of whom, a young child, has died), is unprecedented in New Zealand. And yet New Zealand’s response has matched both the dreadful novelty and scale of the crime.

  
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  Xi Jinping heads for Italy as doubts linger over MoU

  Mar 22, 2019

  President Xi Jinping is visiting Italy, Monaco and France between Mar 21 and 26. In Italy, in particular, he is to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which offers the Italian government as a partner to support the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).