Recent Editorial

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  Reforming Saudi Arabia

  Mar 03, 2017

  Saudi Arabia is a mix of archaic traditions and futuristic ambitions. Its leadership wants to adapt to modern technology and economics but, at the same time, preserve much of its religious and cultural heritage.

  
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  What has Pope Francis taught us four years into his papacy?

  Feb 25, 2017

  When I reflect on four years of Pope Francis, my brain conjures an image of a man (in a white cassock, of course) straining to push a giant armoire across a cavernous room. Spoiler alert — the armoire is the Church.

  
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  China kicks out Christian missionaries

  Feb 25, 2017

  Officials from China’s communist government have expelled dozens of South Korean Christian missionaries following a series of police raids on church groups.

  
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  Uprooting toxic inequality

  Feb 24, 2017

  In itself inequality is not harmful. It is part of the diversity proper in any human society. But the inequality that is now in question is toxic because it is extreme when measured by any scale, and because it is programmed to increase.

  
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  Latin or native language?

  Feb 18, 2017

  The tightly controlled and highly centralised approach to the translation of liturgical texts that has reigned in the Roman Catholic Church over the past fifteen years is likely coming to an end.

  
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  Pope praises expansion of historic Jesuit magazine

  Feb 17, 2017

  As the historic Jesuit-run paper La Civilta Cattolica for the first time rolled out four new language editions other than Italian, Pope Francis praised their work, urging the writers to have a healthy dose of restlessness, openness and imagination.

  
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  Trump’s Muslim ban

  Feb 10, 2017

  The spectre of the new ‘Muslim Ban’ is likely to increase, rather than reduce, the incentive for radical extremists claiming to operate under the banner of Islam.

  
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  Amoris Laetitia in continuity with Church teaching

  Feb 10, 2017

  Cardinal Gerhard Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has, on multiple occasions, maintained that Amoris Laetitia is in continuity with Church teaching.

  
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  German Bishops say the divorced-and-remarried may receive Communion

  Feb 10, 2017

  The German Bishops have published their own guidelines on Amoris laetitia allowing, in certain cases, for divorced-and-remarried Catholics to receive Communion.

  
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  Reformation: Past violence must not be forgotten

  Jan 29, 2017

  The 500th anniversary of the Reformation is an event to be celebrated but also a memory that requires purification and a request for forgiveness.