Recent Editorial

  • Pope Francis looks past Europe with cardinal picks

    Oct 14, 2016

    Pope Francis has decided to honour Archbishop Emeritus Anthony Soter Fernandez, who is renowned for dialogue and spirituality, with a cardinal’s hat.

  • Church as field hospital

    Oct 14, 2016

    Pope Francis, on many occasions, has referred to the Church as a field hospital. In many ways, it is a new concept, in the sense that we would not find this in any definition of Church theologically. In other words, we know that over the centuries so many definitions of the Church have been given: the Church as sacrament, as the People of God, as the Body of Christ, as the Mystical Body of Christ, as communion and community.

  • Why can’t the UN do anything in Syria?

    Oct 07, 2016

    After five years of war in Syria, the United Nations has still not been able to impose a solution to end the conflict.

  • Jesuits’ 36th General Congregation

    Oct 07, 2016

    The Jesuits have been preparing themselves for an impactful General Congregation with prayer, discussions and discernment.

  • Preparing for the Jesuits’ Great Summit

    Oct 07, 2016

    The General Congregation (GC) of the Jesuits is the highest governing body of this religious congregation.

  • Will the Jesuits elect an Asian Father General?

    Oct 07, 2016

    Pope Francis flew to Tbilisi on Friday, Sept 30, for a weekend visit to Georgia and neighbouring Azerbaijan.

  • Some bishops fail to comprehend Amoris Laetitia

    Sep 30, 2016

    The more Catholicism tries to present itself as a separate worldview that divides the world into two, the more Catholics (especially young Catholics) withdraw from this battlefield. They have already enough to do with their everyday life without this combat zone.

  • Can bishops give up on episcopal conferences?

    Sep 30, 2016

    There is no question that the theological reception of the Post Synodal exhortation Amoris Laetitia is taking place.

  • Communion debate and decentralisation

    Sep 30, 2016

    Towards the end of Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love), Pope Francis’s document on the family, the pontiff writes that when priests have to make judgments in concrete cases such as pastoral care of divorced and civilly remarried Catholics, they are to do so “according to the teaching of the Church and the guidelines of the bishop.”

  • PMPC IV

    Sep 23, 2016

    The Peninsular Malaysia Pastoral Convention Four (PMPC IV) is here! There is on-going discussion as well as comments about this forthcoming Convention