Recent Editorial

  • Beware the bishops seeking fame

    Dec 22, 2023

    A few months ago, sitting in a restaurant with a bishop, sharing an appetizer as we waited for our meals, I asked my friend what he thought was the greatest challenge facing the episcopacy at this moment.

  • Why the Israel-Hamas war is so hard to talk about

    Dec 15, 2023

    Since the October 7 massacre of innocent civilians by Hamas and Israel’s subsequent declaration of war on Hamas, a fascinating dynamic has emerged — the Jewish and Palestinian narratives we see posted on social media have converged — with the protagonists and antagonists reversed.

  • Editor’s Note

    Dec 08, 2023

    On December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration on Human Rights ? a milestone enshrining the fundamental rights of every individual.

  • Editor’s Note

    Dec 01, 2023

    We pray that people living with disabilities may be at the centre of attention in society, and that institutions may offer inclusive programmes which value their active participation.

  • Synod was grounded in prayer and doctrine at service of pastoral ministry

    Nov 24, 2023

    The call of Pope St John XXIII that resulted in the Second Vatican Council was a call to respond to a world that had radically changed in the preceding 100 years.

  • Did the synod make a splash?

    Nov 19, 2023

    The Synod’s apparent lack of impact on the everyday struggles of pew-sitting Catholics is also noteworthy.

  • Clericalism? No! Priestliness? Yes!

    Nov 19, 2023

    The word so often repeated, always, rightly, with scorn — at the recently completed synod, was clericalism. This tumour on the Mystical Body of Christ was frequently anathematised by many, from Pope Francis on.

  • The man in the window, and the world beyond

    Nov 19, 2023

    Pope Francis is going to Dubai next month to attend COP28, the latest of a long string of annual United Nations Climate Change Conferences that first began in 1995.

  • Editor’s Note

    Nov 10, 2023

    The recently published Synthesis Report at the conclusion of the 16th General Assembly of the Synod on Synodality heralds a Church that seeks to be more inclusive and responsive to the world’s pressing challenges.

  • The month in which Francis sought to change the Church

    Nov 10, 2023

    With the first session of the Synod assembly on the future of the Church now over, here is an assessment of the historic gathering that discussed subjects previously considered taboo.