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JH Goossens, Pretoria – I refer to the interview with Rev Dr Walter Brueggemann, “Why we must learn to read the Bible anew” (May 24). This is an interview with a Protestant theologian who...
The celebration of Youth Day, and remembering the extraordinary sacrifices and bravery of the Soweto youth of June 16, 1976, is these days often accompanied by a lament for modern-day youth: “The trouble with...
Liturgical Calendar Year A – Weekdays Cycle Year 1 Sunday June 25, 12th Sunday of the Year Jeremiah 20:10-13, Psalms 69:8-10, 14, 17, 33-35, Romans 5:12-15, Matthew 10:26-33 Monday June 26 Genesis 12:1-9, Psalms...
Fr John Allen Green OFM – John Duns Scotus (c. 1266-1308) was a Franciscan philosopher and theologian who in many ways paralleled Bonaventure’s ideas. Duns Scotus helped develop the doctrine of the univocity of being....
Getting to know someone who is a refugee can wipe away fears and dismantle distorted ideologies, Pope Francis said. Highlighting World Refugee Day, which is marked June 20, the pope asked that “concrete attention...
Christians who acknowledge their own weakness and limitations will find the saving power of God’s strength, Pope Francis said. However, recognising one’s own vulnerability is “one of the most difficult things in life,” and...
Might the authority of those who suffer bring the diverse cultural and social worlds together? —Johann Baptist Metz [1] Fr John Allen Green OFM – This profound question about suffering from a modern German theologian succinctly...
Time is running out to find the more than 1 million Jews and Roma people buried in mass graves who were killed during World War II. At the same time, mass graves are turning...
An English cardinal has condemned an attack against Muslims who had gathered close to a London mosque. Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster issued a statement following the fourth terror attack in the United Kingdom...
US columnist Tony Magliano examines how countries spend their money – and how this is often a moral choice The highly relevant quote, “Budgets are moral documents,” has been arguably attributed to Rev. Martin...
I confessed my sins to a priest and somehow I used the term “mortal sin” at the conclusion. To my surprise, the priest commented that he hadn’t heard me confess any mortal sins. Now...
People cannot sit back and be indifferent or unresponsive to growing poverty in the world as a privileged minority accumulates “ostentatious wealth,” Pope Francis said. “God created the heavens and the earth for all;...
