Recent Editorial
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Cardinal Marc Ouellet throws his hat into the ring
Apr 24, 2021
The friendly French-Canadian cardinal who is finishing up more than a decade as head of the Vatican’s office for bishops has just launched his candidacy to become pope.
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Pope calls for a politics ‘not only for people, but with people’
Apr 17, 2021
In a video message to an international conference entitled A Politics Rooted in the People, Pope Francis urges participants, like a good shepherds, to put the most vulnerable first.
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The dangerous online life of Catholics
Apr 17, 2021
Three top Church leaders in Rome recently pointed out the perilous situation of polarization among Catholics at this time.
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Church must be united in witnessing to the Gospel
Apr 10, 2021
In an interview with the Spanish radio network COPE, the Vatican Secretary of State addresses numerous topics, from his priestly vocation to his relationship with Pope Francis, and speaks also about divisions within the Church and the reality of the Church in China.
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The pandemic has given an opportunity to rethink the rules of financial activity
Apr 10, 2021
In a letter sent to the participants in the 2021 Spring Meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Francis calls for the search for the common good to guide finance. Wealthy nations should pay their "ecological debt", "We particularly need a vaccine solidarity that is rightly financed".
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Holy Week a nightmare for Christians in Asia and Africa
Apr 02, 2021
Easter attacks ensure maximum impact both in terms of casualties and publicity
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Pope Francis explains each day of the Easter Triduum
Apr 02, 2021
This is the text of Pope Francis’ weekly Wednesday audience, delivered on March 31, 2021, Wednesday of Holy Week.
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Condemning Myanmar’s Coup
Mar 26, 2021
Myanmar’s military has been using deadly force against demonstrators protesting the February 1 coup, when democratically elected civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint were removed from office and arrested.
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Being consecrated to God is beautiful
Mar 26, 2021
Consecrated life is beautiful and contains a call to witness to what is beautiful and true, Cardinal João Braz de Aviz wrote Thursday in a letter marking the 25th anniversary of St. John Paul II’s apostolic exhortation on consecrated life.
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The Pope in Iraq: Starting over from Abraham to recognise one another as brothers
Mar 20, 2021
Iraqi Christians had been waiting for the Pope for twenty-two years. It was in 1999 when St John Paul II planned a short but significant pilgrimage to Ur of the Chaldees, the first stage of the Jubilee journey to the places of salvation.
Sunday Reflection
Jesus did not turn away from His mission
Today, Palm or Passion Sunday, is the first day of Holy Week, the high point of the Church’s year, climaxing in the Easter Triduum: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday.