Recent Editorial

• Hardline Malaysian Islamists

  May 02, 2014

  Equality, liberty and human rights are “godless” and “faithless” ideologies created by atheists to destroy Islam! This is the opinion of the Islamic group Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (ISMA).

  

• Exclusion of non-Malays are not simply domestic affairs

  May 02, 2014

  Prime Minister Najib Razak has done little to redress the growing divisions and social inequalities between communities within Malaysia.

  

• Popes that created a new mindset

  May 02, 2014

  Our generation has witnessed a religious revolution so extraordinary that it is sometimes hard to appreciate.

  

• One voice that rattled the establishment

  Apr 24, 2014

  IIf there was one voice that dared rattle the ruling government of Barisan Nasional, it was that of DAP’s Karpal Singh. His no-nonsense reaction to the BN leadership’s machiavellian ways of staying in power scared the wits out of the ruling government.

  

• Popes and ‘off the cuff’ statements

  Apr 24, 2014

  The canonization of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II takes place today, April 27, at St Peter’s Basilica. Both of them are “bound together” by their love for addressing the world issues that affect many people.

  

• Rome and Tokyo close in on agreement over Missal translation

  Apr 24, 2014

  For years work has been underway to revise the Japanese Missal, but the task of updating the 1978 edition has proven to be a thorny problem.

  

• C8 cardinals move onto Curia reform

  Apr 24, 2014

  They are expected in the Vatican at the end of next week, before the ceremony for the canonization of John XXIII and John Paul II, set for Sunday 27 April.

  

• Courageous and Saintly Popes of Vatican II

  Apr 16, 2014

  Both Popes, John XXIII and John Paul II, who worked for Church unity and dedicated much of their lives and Magisterium to foster relations among Christian communities, will be canonized on Sunday April 27.

  

• Pope apologizes for priests’ sex abuse, promises strong response

  Apr 16, 2014

  The Church “will not take one step backward” in efforts to punish those who abuse children, Pope Francis promised in an April 11 address to the International Catholic Child Bureau (BICE).

  

• Married men could be ordained priests if world’s bishops agree on it!

  Apr 16, 2014

  A bishop who met with Pope Francis in a rare private audience on 4 April has said in an interview that the two men discussed the issue of the ordination of “proven” married men – viri probati – in a serious and positive way.