Recent Editorial

  • A Virgin Birth?

    Dec 22, 2016

    What are we to make of the virgin birth? What does the virgin birth make of us? Setting aside the first question and to embrace the second takes some pondering.

  • Christmas story trumps the games that power plays

    Dec 22, 2016

    For most people, Christmas concludes a gasping sprint to the end of the year. It also offers an opportunity to reflect on the events of the past year.

  • Pope Francis don’t answer the cardinals

    Dec 19, 2016

    The anti-Francis revolt spearheaded and legitimated by four mostly retired cardinals has acquired a newly vicious tone. A line was crossed when the four cardinals made public their letter challenging Francis’ apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, and threatening him with a kind of public censure.

  • Four cardinals do not make a schism

    Dec 19, 2016

    I was asked by a journalist last week if I thought the Catholic church was in danger of schism over the question of Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics.

  • Churches on high alert as terrorist attacks rattle the Philippines

    Dec 09, 2016

    The ISIS-affiliated Maute group, is spreading fear and preparing new attacks. A bomb exploded in front of a church on the first Sunday of Advent.

  • Why famed atheist Stephen Hawking is on a pontifical academy

    Dec 09, 2016

    Stephen Hawking’s visit to the Vatican this week has raised curiosity, with some asking what exactly the famed astrophysicist and self-proclaimed atheist was doing in the heart of the Catholic Church.

  • Pope tells CEOs: If you want to help the poor, empower them!

    Dec 09, 2016

    Pope Francis has called on the world’s most powerful business people to work towards a more inclusive and equitable economic model, not just for the poor but with the poor, putting a human face on those in need.

  • Stirrings on anti-Christian persecution

    Dec 02, 2016

    A delegation of Hungarian diplomats and politicians was in Rome for meetings with Vatican officials, two weeks ago.

  • Western bishops tending towards nasionalism

    Dec 02, 2016

    The Church’s role is also becoming critical again in two key countries in Europe, where upcoming elections are poised to shape the future of the continent.

  • Catholicism between globalism and nationalism

    Dec 02, 2016

    The Catholic Church can be seen as a transnational corporation. In fact, it is probably the largest and oldest in the world.