Columns
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Universal healthcare a basic right underpinned by a sense of solidarity
May 26, 2016
The Bishop of Rome has stressed that healthcare is a basic human right. Healthcare, said Francis, is “not a consumer good, but rather a universal right, and therefore access to healthcare services cannot be a privilege”.
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Youth today – Who are they really?
May 26, 2016
A seminarian I know recently went to a party on a Friday evening at a local university campus.
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Two major breakthroughs for greater inclusivity
May 20, 2016
Two significant things happened over the last week. One of them was the election of Sadiq Khan, son of a bus conductor and a seamstress, as mayor of London.
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The ten commandments of mercy
May 20, 2016
Among the Ten Commandments, one begins with the word “remember”: Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day”.
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An unsung prophet of our times
May 13, 2016
Few of us may have heard of him. The legendary peace activist, poet and nuclear weapons opponent Daniel Joseph Berrigan, SJ passed away on April 30 at the age of 94.
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Daniel Berrigan – RIP
May 13, 2016
Before you get serious about Jesus, first consider how good you’re going to look on wood! Daniel Berrigan wrote those words and they express a lot about who he was and what he believed in. He died at age 94.
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Sense of interconnectedness sparks thinking as global citizens
May 06, 2016
A study carried out by the BBC World Service has shown that more than half of those polled in 18 countries see themselves as global citizens.
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Marking an anniversary
May 05, 2016
What we cease to celebrate, we will soon cease to cherish. This year, 2016, marks the 200th anniversary of the founding of the religious congregation to which I belong, The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.
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Loyalty and patriotism revisited
May 02, 2016
In a recent article in America magazine, Grant Kaplan, commenting on the challenge of the resurrection, makes this comment: “Unlike previous communiti
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The things that money can never buy
May 02, 2016
Even back in gospel times, they tried to put a price on Jesus, or rather on Judas. Thirty pieces of silver, they thought, was what it would take to bu
Sunday Reflection
Jesus did not turn away from His mission
Today, Palm or Passion Sunday, is the first day of Holy Week, the high point of the Church’s year, climaxing in the Easter Triduum: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday.