Recent Editorial

• 

  Cardinal George Pell on Financial Reform at the Vatican

  Jul 24, 2014

  Pope Francis is well on the way to achieving a total and radical reform of the Vatican’s finances. That became abundantly clear on July 9 when the Australian cardinal George Pell, the man he appointed to spearhead that reform, presented the New Economic Framework for the Holy See at a crowded press conference in the Vatican.

  

• Not quite a parting of the ways

  Jul 24, 2014

  The vote by the Church of England’s governing body to allow women to be ordained as bishops is historic and dramatic, even if it was the logical consequence of the decision by the same body to ordain women as priests made in 1992.

  

• Vatican must understand ways of the media

  Jul 17, 2014

  Rene Bruelhart, the man brought in by Benedict XVI to run the Vatican’s newly formed anti-money-laundering Financial Information Authority, was frank in assessing the Catholic Church’s task during a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal.

  
• 

  The desperate dream of the Islamic Caliphate

  Jul 17, 2014

  Like all Muslim terrorists, the new "Caliph" has a new "war name". He is no longer called Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. His real name is Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai, who was born in Samarra in 1971. His full name of war is: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi al-Husseini al-Qurashi.

  

• Don’t save Malaysia by threatening Malaysians

  Jul 11, 2014

  Here is a lesson from the World Cup: a coach resigns from his job when he takes responsibility for his team's poor performance or when he feels he does not have the ability to take the team further.

  

• Pope speaks openly of ways his pontificate may end

  Jul 11, 2014

  Sympathizing with all the unknowns facing young people today, Pope Francis -- half joking -- said it is easier for a pope because he knows where his earthly life will end.

  

• October Synod The Family in Context

  Jul 05, 2014

  “The proclamation of the Gospel of the Family is an integral part of the mission of the Church,” opens the just-released working document for this coming October’s Synod of Bishops.

  

• Lift the ‘Allah’ ban on HERALD

  Jul 05, 2014

  The Archbishop of Kuching John Ha said Putrajaya has the power to lift the ‘Allah’ ban on HERALD after a recent judgment by the Federal Court which states otherwise.

  

• Cabinet has no power to usurp apex court on secular Malaysia

  Jun 27, 2014

  Any attempt by Putrajaya to declare that Malaysia is not a secular state goes against a 1988 decision by the then Supreme Court that held that the law in Malaysia was secular, say constitutional lawyers and academics.

  

• Malaysia divides itself further with latest ‘Allah’ decisi

  Jun 27, 2014

  Make no mistake, the biggest losers from today’s (June 23) decision by the Federal Court not to give leave to the Catholic Church to appeal a decision stopping it from using the word ‘Allah’ are East Malaysians.