Recent Editorial

Vietnamese Bishops focus on laity formation

Apr 24, 2021

Bishops in Vietnam have drawn up definite plans for training laypeople in faith practice and expanding training facilities.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.