Pakistan Archbishop ‘Grief Stricken’ when Visiting Injured Children
By Simon Caldwell – Archbishop Sebastian Shaw of Lahore, Pakistan, said he was grief stricken while visiting hospitalized child victims of an Easter bomb attack in a city...
March 2016
Has the Purpose of Marriage Changed?
From Patrick Dacey, Johannesburg – If one has the inclination to read an article in the American National Catholic Reporter (March 2) concerning a report released by the...
Vatican Astronomer: Doing Science is an Act of Worship
By Marie Mischel, Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno finds no conflict between the science he pursues in studying meteorites and the Catholic faith he practices every day.
Are Women More Religious than Men?
By Dennis Sadowski – Women, especially among Christians around the world, generally are more devout than men when standard measures of religious commitment are considered, a Pew Research...
Pope Francis: God is Greater than our Sins
By Junno Arocho Esteves – The power of God’s forgiveness “is greater than our sins,” Pope Francis said. Christians have “the certainty that he will never abandon us,” the...
Bishop says he believes Salesian priest kidnapped in Yemen is still alive
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service The bishop who leads the apostolic vicariate that includes Yemen said he has “strong indications” that Salesian Father Tom Uzhunnalil “is...
Cardinal edited The Southern Cross – twice!
No other newspaper can claim that it has been edited by a future and serving cardinal—except The Southern Cross, in the person of Cardinal Owen McCann. MICHAIL RASSOOL looks...
Christians were denied Easter permits to enter Jerusalem
BEIT JALLA, West Bank (CNS) — Nicola Sansour’s voice had a tinge of sadness as he recounted how his family had planned to celebrate Easter this year....
Jesus was here! And that’s a certain fact
There are sites in the Holy Land where we can locate the physical Jesus with certainty. In the second part of his series on the recent Pilgrimage...
Communion is not Just a Ritual
Human beings like rituals. The problem is that we can easily turn something of great significance into a ritual of no consequence. This is true of the Eucharist.
