Recent Editorial

• 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.

  

• Political Vocations

  Jun 20, 2014

  Catholic teaching views the vocation of politics as a vital element in building up the kingdom of God on earth.

  
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  Christians face new turmoil in Iraq

  Jun 20, 2014

  It may have been hard to imagine conditions for Christians in Iraq getting much worse than they already were, but two days ago they did.

  

• Pope Francis in the Holy Land, horizons beyond

  Jun 13, 2014

  The arrival in May 2014 of Pope Francis on a three-day pilgrimage to the Holy Land, which took in three countries — Jordan, Palestine and Israel — raised levels of anxiety in the region.

  

• Pope Francis Meets Patriarch Bartholomew I and Christians

  Jun 13, 2014

  From the outset, Pope Francis put his encounter with Patriarch Bartholomew 1, the Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, at the centre of his pilgrimage.

  

• Church growing at faster rate than world population, Africa shows fastest growth

  Jun 05, 2014

  The Pontifical Yearbook has published all figures relating to Church life around the world. The volume is published annually and collects together data from the Holy See’s central offices.

  

• Pope Francis points the way to peace

  Jun 05, 2014

  Pope Francis has demonstrated once again that he has an intuitive grasp of the power of symbolism.