Recent Editorial

  • Financial commitment to climate change

    Jun 26, 2015

    Financial commitment is also a sign of personal or political commitment (“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” Matthew 6:21).

  • Priests needed: As Church growth explodes worldwide, parishes can't keep up

    Jun 17, 2015

    The global Catholic population is growing – so quickly, in fact, that priest and parish numbers cannot keep up, says a new study on trends in the worldwide Church.

  • Encyclical will spur climate change debate

    Jun 17, 2015

    Francis’s encyclical has already brought charges from prominent Catholics that the Church should stay out of the science.

  • Pope Francis pays for 120 of Rome's poor to visit Shroud of Turin

    Jun 11, 2015

    In his latest act of papal charity, Pope Francis has donated funds for two busloads of homeless and sick pilgrims to visit the Shroud of Turin. They will stay in two charitable centers that offer shelter to the homeless during the winter.

  • The pilgrim church revived under Francis

    Jun 11, 2015

    It was a bold, even audacious, assertion by then-Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio in an intervention to fellow cardinals during the week preceding the conclave that elected him Pope.

  • In need of hope

    Jun 11, 2015

    From the beginning of his pontificate, Pope Francis has given particular attention to “the peripheries” of the world. Bosnia-Herzegovina, with its capital city Sarajevo, is one of those peripheries.

  • Five things to look for in the encyclical on environment

    Jun 04, 2015

    Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment is being translated into multiple languages and will be published probably in June. Here are five things to look for in the new encyclical.

  • Anglican Church head pays visit to China

    Jun 04, 2015

    The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby met with a top Chinese political advisor as the head of the Anglican Church began a subdued visit to China amid the worst persecution against Christians there in a generation.

  • Climate of change: The Catholic Church’s dance with science

    Jun 04, 2015

    From Galileo to genetics, the Roman Catholic Church has danced with science, sometimes in a high-tension tango but more often in a supportive waltz. Pope Francis is about to introduce a new twist: global warming.

  • Pioneering Asian theologian in biblical ethics dies at 46

    May 27, 2015

    A young theologian and priest with a global reputation as a rising pioneer in the field of theological ethics died suddenly Tuesday, just months before he was to host a first-of-its-kind conference bringing together ethicists across Asia.