Recent Editorial

Sydney’s a Church of millennials

Aug 25, 2023

As hundreds of Sydney pilgrims concluded their World Youth Day adventure, a new analysis has shown the Archdiocese of Sydney is unique among Australia’s metropolitan sees for having retained Millennial and Gen Z adults.
If the synod isn’t a parliament, voting should be dropped

Aug 25, 2023

Pope Francis keeps repeating that the upcoming synod is not a parliament. For him, the synod is not a forum for competing positions to debate each other with a goal of developing new policies or effecting structural changes in the Church.
Youth not asking ‘Is there space?’ but ‘Why bother?’

Aug 18, 2023

For an entire generation of young people — some of them misfits and some cool kids, some convinced Catholics but also plenty of folks on the fence and free-spirited seekers — Pope Francis at the recent World Youth Day (WYD) in Lisbon, Portugal, had a clear answer: “Yes, there is room for all of you
Pope to priests of Rome: I am on the journey with you

Aug 18, 2023

“I am close to you in your joys and sufferings, thank you for your often unrecognised service,” Pope Francis writes in a letter to the priests of his Diocese, while warning them against spiritual worldliness that “hides behind appearances of religiosity and love for the Church, but in reality consis
Conference president reflects on his new role, responsibility

Aug 18, 2023

In July, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei (CBCMSB) met for their bi-annual plenary assembly during which they elected a new president — Archbishop Julian Leow Beng Kim of the Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur, succeeding the outgoing president, Cardinalelect Sebastian Franci
10 years ago, Pope Francis shook up the church, Now he’s cementing his legacy

Aug 11, 2023

When Pope Francis made the first foreign trip of his papacy, to Rio de Janeiro for World Youth Day (WYD) in 2013, he urged young people to make a “mess” in their local churches, to shake things up even if it ruffled the feathers of their bishops.
World Youth Days test the limits of ageing popes

Aug 11, 2023

At a press conference just hours after Pope Francis underwent a surprise hernia operation in June, an immediate concern was whether the 86-year-old would be cleared to travel to Portugal in August for World Youth Day (WYD).
Youth, lights in the dark night

Aug 04, 2023

We live in an increasingly secular world. Pope Francis has stated that modern societies belittle the practice of the faith through cultural irony, considering faith something for the old to practise.
Faith in the future as an act of remembering the past

Aug 04, 2023

It is we who keep the ongoing legacy of the Second Vatican Council alive, and together we will help to map the future that lies ahead of us
Synod on Synodality to open debate on wide range of hot topics

Jun 30, 2023

Decision-making methods, the place of women, migrants, homosexuals, cultural traditions, climate change, priestly formation. Rarely has a document from Rome covered so many themes in such an open manner.