Recent Editorial

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  Lutherans and Catholics chart path to unity

  Oct 30, 2016

  This is the first time the centenary observance of the Reformation will occur in an ecumenical era. Since the Joint Declaration of the Doctrine of Justification by the Vatican and the Lutheran World Federation in 1999, we’ve reached a new stage. We’ve made more progress in the last 50 years toward healing the wounds of our divisions than we have in the last five centuries.

  
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  Why Pope Francis goes to Sweden for the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation

  Oct 30, 2016

  Half a millennium later, Pope Francis will travel to Sweden to remember this painful separation and send a message of hope: that unity is possible.

  
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  New Jesuit General: “Not only the Improbable, but the Impossible”

  Oct 20, 2016

  Often a Pope’s first homily after his election is seen as a preview of his pontificate. This is also the case for other Catholic leaders — cardinals and bishops, as well as superiors of religious orders.

  
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  Meet Archbishop Krajewski, Francis’ pick to help migrants in Rome

  Oct 20, 2016

  Krajewski, 52, has spent most of his ecclesiastical life in Rome but he hardly comes across like a career Vatican official. This evening he is dressed in a plain black shirt and pants with a black vest, his collar open and the distinctive white neck band of a priest nowhere in sight.

  
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  Entire parish, not just a committee, must offer hospitality

  Oct 20, 2016

  In a workshop on parish hospitality during the annual conference of the International Catholic Stewardship Council held Oct. 2-5 in New Orleans, Christine Heusinger, associate director of stewardship for the Archdiocese of Atlanta, put up a cartoon on the big screen.

  
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  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.

  
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  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.

  
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  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.

  
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  Jesuits’ 36th General Congregation

  Oct 07, 2016

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

  
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  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.