Recent Editorial
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sunday Reflection
Penitence; Do it now!
Stay Awake! “Watch and pray constantly; Make ready the way of the Lord; Blameless when Jesus comes; Arise Jerusalem these are some of the words that we hear during the season of Advent.
