Recent Editorial

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  Vatican and 'State of Palestine' agree to treaty safeguarding religious liberty

  May 21, 2015

  The Holy See and the State of Palestine have agreed on the text of a treaty regarding the life and activity of the Church in Palestine, which is expected to be signed soon by both parties.

  

• Israel’s Foreign Ministry reacts with ‘disappointment’

  May 21, 2015

  The Vatican announced its intention to sign an accord with the state of Palestine, two years after first recognizing the territories as a state.

  

• Two Palestinian nuns canonized

  May 21, 2015

  The canonization of the two girls from the East during these dark times is an invitation from His Holiness Pope Francis to pray, knowing that only prayer can miraculously help save our faith in the midst of these times of trial.

  
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  Pope’s environmental Rerum Novarum

  May 15, 2015

  Towards the end of the nineteenth century, the Catholic Church was facing an unprecedented social crisis, the immiseration of the working classes of Europe.

  
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  How moms set children’s spiritual compass and why it matters

  May 15, 2015

  Religious identity used to be “inherited”. “Cradle Catholic” is shorthand for born into the faith; within Judaism, the faith is passed through a Jewish mother to her children, unless they grow up to proclaim a different religion.

  
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  Will youth inevitably support same-sex marriage? These activists say nope

  May 07, 2015

  Old and young, gay and straight, marriage defense advocates rallied outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, calling for the institution of marriage to be maintained.

  

• A wedding and an execution

  May 07, 2015

  The last days of Andrew Chan spoke more powerfully than words can about the meaning of execution.

  
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  Boko Haram is spreading to Cameroon – while the world looks the other way

  Apr 29, 2015

  A bishop in Cameroon has sent out an urgent message that the militant Islamist group Boko Haram is increasingly spreading into his country – but that media around the world are paying no attention.

  
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  Armenian Church canonises 1.5 million genocide ‘martyrs’

  Apr 29, 2015

  The 1.5 million Armenians massacred by Ottoman forces in the genocide that lasted from 1915-22 were canonised in a two-hour ceremony on April 24, reports The Tablet.

  

• The Great Crime

  Apr 29, 2015

  First, they came for the intellectuals. On April 24, 1915, Turkish troops arrested 250 prominent Armenian journalists, professors and business leaders in Constantinople. They would not return.