Keeping the youth in Church
This week, two concerned voices add to the discussion concerning the exodus of young people from the Catholic Church, one...
Editorials
Church’s in transition?
When the cardinals prepared to choose a new pope in April, expectations among many of them were high that the...
Church’s dialogue with Jews
Pope Benedict may not engage in the expansive theatrical interplay of his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, but he evidently...
Poverty: It’s now or never
It is telling that a cardinal from one of Central America’s poorest countries should agitate so strongly for debt relief...
A shared Eucharist
When in late May Pope Benedict and Cardinal Walter Kasper spoke about the Eucharist, they outlined why they believed sharing...
Facing up to suicide
About a year ago, a funeral service caused much uproar in a South African archdiocese. Burying a 14-year-old girl who...
The vice of corruption
We should be glad that authorities expose many cases of corruption in the South African civil service. On the other...
The voice of the papacy
Popes come and go. When they do, the Church’s focus is on the person, the particular man who has worn...
A time to heal
As the cardinals prepared to enter conclave on April 18 to elect a new pope, newspapers in Europe already had...
