Recent Editorial
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Eucharist weaponised for political ends — this must not happen!
May 08, 2021
In the six months since the 2020 election, a growing movement has emerged in the Church in the United States that calls upon the nation’s bishops to publicly exclude President Joseph R Biden and other Catholic public officials from the Eucharist.
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To choose a bishop: a man for the Church, not a “ladder-climber”
May 08, 2021
The criteria is not to seek perfection, “saints” to put on a pedestal, but men who certainly possess human and spiritual virtues.
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Chinks in tackling COVID
May 01, 2021
The genie is out of the bottle with a vengeance; the new wave of Covid has proved all predictions wrong. Equally, it has brought out the chinks in tackling Covid.
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Synodality and papal primacy
May 01, 2021
Questions regarding the Catholic Church today and the next pope.
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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.
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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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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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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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Sunday Reflection
God hears our lamentations
Jesus had not just won the fascination of His audience and disciples, but also the respect of the people for the way He pitted himself against Jewish Orthodoxy.
