Recent Editorial

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  Are Catholics ready for synodality — is it too radical?

  Nov 19, 2021

  What has been launched is a journey — over two years — with the Synod of Bishops not scheduled to occur until 2023. The notion that we risk becoming museum pieces is confronting. As the impacts of the secularisation of society continues, we have had to accept the realities of reduced congregations, a decline in vocations, parish amalgamations and churches closing.

  
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  Synodality: let’s try this one more time

  Nov 12, 2021

  There is still a lot of confusion and misunderstanding over the term ’synodality’.

  
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  We must look beyond material poverty

  Nov 12, 2021

  This year we celebrate the fifth World Day of the Poor on November 14, 2021 with the theme “The poor you have always with you” (Mark 14:7).

  
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  Look deeper to see the ‘spiritual reality’ of the Eucharist, the unborn, and unhoused

  Nov 05, 2021

  In a new reflection, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone identifies a common thread linking abortion, homelessness, and the urgent need for Eucharistic revival among Catholics: a challenge to look beyond outward appearances and see “the deeper spiritual reality.” Cordileone released the reflection to CNA on October 29 in advance of a Requiem Mass for The Homeless he will preside over on Nov 6. The reflection also comes just weeks before the fall general assembly of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, to be held from Nov 15-18 in Baltimore, where consideration of a new document on Eucharistic revival will be one of the chief items on the agenda.

  
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  A climate catastrophe looms on the floodwaters of ignorance

  Nov 05, 2021

  Pope Francis and religious leaders made an appeal for the success of the COP26 climate summit being held in Glasgow, Scotland.

  
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  Pope Francis at his prophetic best!

  Oct 29, 2021

  “The pandemic has laid bare the social inequalities that afflict our peoples,” said Francis.

  
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  Vatican decree clarifies role of bishops’ conferences in liturgical translations

  Oct 29, 2021

  The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has published a decree implementing Pope Francis’ motu proprio Magnum Principium, concerning the respective competencies of the Congregation and the episcopal conferences with regard to the translation of liturgical texts.

  
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  Inspiring others through our lived faith

  Oct 22, 2021

  In 2019, Pope Francis declared an extraordinary missionary month in October. With the words Baptised and Sent echoing in our ears, the clergy, religious and laity were invited to reflect on a deeper understanding of the Church’s call to mission and to share in the missionary nature of the Church through Encounter, Testimony, Formation and Charity.

  
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  Preparing for mission in a post-pandemic Church

  Oct 22, 2021

  In conjunction with World Mission Sunday, Archbishop Simon Poh, Episcopal President for New Evangelisation and Pontifical Mission Societies of MalaysiaSingapore-Brunei, invites us to reflect on our call to be missionaries, particularly in a post-pandemic Malaysian Church

  
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  We will always have the poor among us

  Oct 15, 2021

  October 17 is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.