Recent Editorial

• Cardinal Nichols says Pope Francis appreciates the ‘pragmatic minority’ temperament of English Catholicism

  Nov 27, 2014

  Cardinal Vincent Nichols said this week that he believes Pope Francis appreciates the experience of the English Catholic Church in learning to exist in a culture that does not always agree with it.

  
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  Interfaith leaders unite on marriage

  Nov 27, 2014

  Leaders from various faith traditions around the globe are backing the union of a man and woman as an inherently complimentary human reality that transcends even the difference of religion.

  

• Pope of the poor provides showers

  Nov 27, 2014

  Pope Francis, the pope of the poor, had showers installed for people who are homeless in St Peter’s Square.

  

• Ending the Bible grab with no apologies, but a warning

  Nov 20, 2014

  The Bibles that were seized by the Selangor Islamic Department (Jais) from The Bible Society of Malaysia (BSM) on January 2 were returned to Christians in Sarawak today through the Association of Churches in Sarawak (ACS), in a ceremony at the Selangor palace in Shah Alam.

  

• The protagonist of Pre-Vatican II liturgy (Tridentine Liturgy)

  Nov 20, 2014

  Cardinal Burke, during these past six or so years in Rome, has emerged as perhaps the most liturgically and doctrinally retrodox prelate in the Church.

  
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  Cadinal Burke transferred

  Nov 20, 2014

  Pope Francis’ transfer of Cardinal Raymond Burke from being the Vatican’s “chief justice” to a mere cardinal-protector of the Knights of Malta, has intensified yet more irresponsible talk of schism within the Catholic Church.

  

• Building a theologically thinking and feeling community in South Asia

  Nov 13, 2014

  Let us build ourselves … Let us know each other was the theme for the first day of the conference.

  

• The Church needs the commotion the Family Synod caused

  Nov 13, 2014

  It is difficult to imagine why any pope would want to engage in the synodal process if it were not to discuss compelling issues of the day.

  

• Pope Benedict’s fearful words

  Nov 11, 2014

  Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has made few contributions to the life of the Church since his retirement, preferring instead to “watch and pray.”

  

• Hope for religious freedom in Indonesia

  Nov 11, 2014

  Members of several religious minority groups in Indonesia say they are cautiously optimistic about plans to draft a new bill to protect persecuted minorities in the predominantly Muslim country.