While to a certain degree returning to “business as usual” will not likely happen, that does not mean the vast majority of those who hold most of the world’s wealth and power will not...
Catholic bishops in Australia will entrust the country to the care of Mary, Help of Christians, on her feast day, May 24. The bishops approved the plan during their early May plenary meeting, conducted...
Bible / Catholic Social Teaching / Christian Living / Church / Crisis / Fr Pierre Goldie
by Fr Pierre Goldie · Published May 18, 2020
The global pandemic makes new demands on society as a whole, including the economy. In the struggle with this seemingly implacable virus, business needs realignment, reorientation. Maximising profit in our grim situation, which some...
Church / Crisis / Ecumenical dialogue
by Caleb SC · Published May 18, 2020 · Last modified May 15, 2020
Hand-washing is important in warding off Covid-19 infection. In a new pastoral letter, the South African Council of Churches has commented on various social and faith issues related to the coronavirus crisis. Addressing “a...
By James Ramos – When parishioners begin returning to their churches as pandemic restrictions are gradually lifted, the buildings will look the same, but the environment might feel different because of new social-distancing measures. For...
Christian Living / Church / Crisis / Ecumenical dialogue / Interfaith dialogue / Pope Francis / Prayer
by CNS · Published May 14, 2020
By Cindy Wooden – At a time of global “tragedy and suffering” because of the coronavirus, and in view of the long-term impact it will have, believers of every religion should beg mercy from...
The bishop of Rustenburg has said that the current coronavirus crisis is a time to look at the future of the Church. Writing in this week’s edition of the British Catholic journal The Tablet,...
Every year on Mother’s Day, men of St Anthony’s church in Greyville, Durban, come together very early on Sunday morning to prepare a special breakfast for the parish’s mothers, with fried bacon and eggs,...
By Simon Caldwell – Churches in England and Wales must wait until July before they may reopen, under a coronavirus recovery strategy published by the government. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s 50-page blueprint to ease the...
By Laura Ieraci – Ending the widespread stay-at-home orders under the coronavirus pandemic would align with Catholic social teaching and respond to the needs of vulnerable people, including the young and the poor, two Catholic...
By Catholic News Service – Catholic bishops have distanced themselves from a letter in which several prominent Catholic clergy warned there were attempts to use the COVID-19 pandemic to create a “world government beyond all...
By Carol Glatz – With a number of countries in Europe slowly easing restrictions as part of a long-term strategy for containing the spread of the coronavirus, churches, too, are seeing changes in what is...
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