Recent Editorial

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  Evangelize with your life – not by proselytism

  Sep 16, 2016

  Recalling the life of the Jesuit missionary St Peter Claver, Pope Francis said that the essence of evangelization is witness to Christ with one’s whol

  
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  There’s more heroism in Mother Teresa than an advancing army

  Sep 10, 2016

  Mother Teresa used to say, “I will give saints to the Church.” These words came to my mind when I heard that four of her sisters were killed in Yemen.

  
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  Pope takes control on refugee issues

  Sep 10, 2016

  Advancing with determination in the reform of the Roman Curia, Pope Francis has created an important new department for “integral human development” and, as expected, has appointed the Ghanaian cardinal, Peter Turkson, as its first prefect.

  
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  Effects of overly secularized culture

  Sep 02, 2016

  Pope Francis warned Poland’s Catholic bishops that we are living in an increasingly secularized and de-Christianized culture. This has left many people orphaned, exploited and vaguely spiritual without Christ or his Church.

  
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  Lone convert from Bhutan became priest thanks to Mother Teresa

  Sep 02, 2016

  Jesuit Fr Kinley Tshering is the current provincial of Darjeeling in India, and, so far as anyone knows, the lone Bhutanese convert to Catholicism.

  
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  Ratzinger a friend of Pope Francis

  Sep 02, 2016

  “Obedience to my successor has always been unquestionable. Then there is a sense of deep communion and friendship,” the Pope Emeritus said, ahead of the publication of Peter Seewald’s book-length interview with Benedict XVI.

  
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  Women deacons and subsidiarity in a fragmenting Church

  Aug 25, 2016

  Nearly four weeks after the Vatican’s announcement of the commission on women deacons, we still do not know much about its agenda or schedule.

  
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  Commending Phoebe

  Aug 25, 2016

  “I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon of the church at Cenchreae,” wrote St. Paul in the Letter to the Romans (16:1).

  

• Time for critical reframing not restorationism

  Aug 25, 2016

  “In Australia, we seem to have reached a critical juncture. Not only are we afflicted by such things as the decline in Sunday worship, the fall in religious practices, the dearth of the priesthood and religious life etc

  
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  Olympics and religion

  Aug 19, 2016

  It's no secret that the Olympic Games bring together a diverse pool of people from different ethnicities and cultures — individuals who have divergent beliefs and lifestyles, particularly when it comes to the practice of faith and religion.