Recent Editorial

Canon law must be part of Church’s mission of mercy

Jan 05, 2024

All the Catholic Church’s structures, including tribunals and faculties of canon law, must undergo a “pastoral and missionary conversion” to ensure the Church is giving the world “the only thing it needs: the Gospel of the mercy of Jesus,” said Pope Francis.
A street side Christmas musing on synodality

Dec 22, 2023

People either have trained their eyes not to see him or they are short-sighted, callously blind, even to cast a fleeting glance at him.
Beware the bishops seeking fame

Dec 22, 2023

A few months ago, sitting in a restaurant with a bishop, sharing an appetizer as we waited for our meals, I asked my friend what he thought was the greatest challenge facing the episcopacy at this moment.
Why the Israel-Hamas war is so hard to talk about

Dec 15, 2023

Since the October 7 massacre of innocent civilians by Hamas and Israel’s subsequent declaration of war on Hamas, a fascinating dynamic has emerged — the Jewish and Palestinian narratives we see posted on social media have converged — with the protagonists and antagonists reversed.
Editor’s Note

Dec 08, 2023

On December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration on Human Rights ? a milestone enshrining the fundamental rights of every individual.
Editor’s Note

Dec 01, 2023

We pray that people living with disabilities may be at the centre of attention in society, and that institutions may offer inclusive programmes which value their active participation.
Synod was grounded in prayer and doctrine at service of pastoral ministry

Nov 24, 2023

The call of Pope St John XXIII that resulted in the Second Vatican Council was a call to respond to a world that had radically changed in the preceding 100 years.
Did the synod make a splash?

Nov 19, 2023

The Synod’s apparent lack of impact on the everyday struggles of pew-sitting Catholics is also noteworthy.
Clericalism? No! Priestliness? Yes!

Nov 19, 2023

The word so often repeated, always, rightly, with scorn — at the recently completed synod, was clericalism. This tumour on the Mystical Body of Christ was frequently anathematised by many, from Pope Francis on.
The man in the window, and the world beyond

Nov 19, 2023

Pope Francis is going to Dubai next month to attend COP28, the latest of a long string of annual United Nations Climate Change Conferences that first began in 1995.