Recent Editorial

• Now the talking really begins

  Oct 30, 2014

  Pope Francis wanted frankness and openness, and that is what he got. But there is also the sense that the real debate in the Church about marriage and families is only just starting .

  

• Synod a win for Francis and ‘openness’

  Oct 30, 2014

  As people analyze and debate the final relatio or report from the Synod on the Family, there is a danger of missing the forest for the trees.

  

• New pastoral paths for divorced families

  Oct 24, 2014

  The Synod recognized the need for new pastoral paths in dealing with divorced families. “Each damaged family, first of all, should be listened to with respect and love, becoming companions on the journey as Christ did with the disciples on the road to Emmaus.”

  

• Synod document offers new style of being church

  Oct 24, 2014

  Listening, accompanying, respecting, valuing, discerning, welcoming, dialogue are words repeated throughout the new document being discussed by the synod of bishops in Rome this week. Words of condemnation and marginalization were avoided.

  

• Seminary formation

  Oct 24, 2014

  Pope Francis is concerned about the formation candidates for the priesthood are receiving and is well aware that all is not well behind the walls of seminaries in some countries, and also in Rome, sources say.

  

• Is Bible burning threat a call for moderation?

  Oct 17, 2014

  t is sad that the honorable de facto Law Minister, Nancy Shukri had defended Perkasa’s Ibrahim Ali’s call to burn bibles as ‘committing no wrong’ in a statement in Parliament.

  

• Cardinal Nichols on Family Synod

  Oct 17, 2014

  Cardinal Nichols: It is a very remarkable occasion when cardinals and bishops from all around the world come together.

  

• Double talk, double standards that make Malaysians burn

  Oct 17, 2014

  Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Nancy Shukri's written parliamentary reply on behalf of the prime minister speaks volumes about the double talk and double standards in enforcing the law in Malaysia.

  

• It is wrong to think in terms of a “clash of civilizations”

  Oct 09, 2014

  In the address he gave at the 69th session of the UN General Assembly, the Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin stressed that according to international law, “it is both licit and urgent to stop aggression through multilateral action and a proportionate use of force.”

  

• A Synod that is open to dialogue and debate

  Oct 09, 2014

  The Extraordinary Synod on the Family which ends next Sunday, 19th October, 2014 is perhaps a defining moment of Pope Francis’ pontificate. He has been encouraging the Synod Fathers to dialogue and debate freely.