Many of us are not fond of seeing animals in cages. But when desperate human beings – especially children – who have trekked the gruelling, dangerous journey mainly from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras...
Abuse / Church / Erin Carelse / Ethics & Human Dignity / Parish Life
by Erin Carelse · Published July 18, 2019 · Last modified July 15, 2019
A workshop on healing memories produced tangible results, according to participants. They spoke after attending a Durban archdiocese Justice & Peace (J&P) “Healing of Memories” weekend workshop for some 15 mothers and daughters at Mariannhill’s...
Church / Church Teaching / Ethics & Human Dignity / Fr Pierre Goldie
by Fr Pierre Goldie · Published June 4, 2019 · Last modified June 3, 2019
The Catholic Church confidently sees itself as Mother and Teacher of all nations (Mater et Magister, 1961), a pillar and ground of truth. It communicates its social teachings in order to Christianise the conditions...
Christian Living / Ethics & Human Dignity / Human Rights / Magliano
by Tony Magliano · Published June 3, 2019
“The signs of meanness we see around us heighten our fear of ‘the other,’ the unknown, the marginalised, the foreigner,” and thus many migrants seeking a better life end up as recipients of this...
Church / Ethics & Human Dignity
by Erin Carelse · Published May 25, 2019 · Last modified May 21, 2019
An international conference on human trafficking, convened by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, took place in Rome and was an opportunity to focus on practical implementation of the pastoral guidelines on trafficking....
Christian Living / Ethics & Human Dignity / Evil & Persecution / Nthabiseng Maphisa
by Nthabiseng Maphisa · Published May 21, 2019 · Last modified May 20, 2019
The old proverb claims that “the pen is mightier than the sword”. This saying has been used time and again and has consequently become tired. Though it is a cliché, my observation of current...
Church / Ethics & Human Dignity / Justice & Peace / Religious Freedom
by asiel · Published October 24, 2018 · Last modified October 23, 2018
Catholic Asia Bibi has been held in solitary confinement in Pakistan since November 2010, when she was sentenced to hang for insulting Muhammad, the founder of Islam. Ashiq Masih, her husband, said that if...
Crisis / Ethics & Human Dignity / War and Refugees
by Jael SC · Published October 22, 2018 · Last modified October 19, 2018
Aid agencies and Catholic officials are sounding the alarm on Yemen’s spiraling humanitarian crisis, calling on the combatants to end the war and make badly need assistance available. Yemen is facing the largest humanitarian...
Ethics & Human Dignity / Letter of the Week
by Letters Editor · Published October 15, 2018 · Last modified October 14, 2018
Malcolm Bagley, Cape Town – Pope Francis has changed the Catechism of the Catholic Church on the subject of the death penalty, saying it can never be sanctioned because it “attacks” the inherent dignity...
Church / Death / Depression &Suicide / Ethics & Human Dignity
by Kilian SC · Published October 3, 2018 · Last modified October 2, 2018
A woman religious suffering from metastatic breast cancer in the final stages received medication to ease severe pain and thanked the doctors and nurses. “Now that the pain is tolerable, I can start praying...
Church / Ethics & Human Dignity / Pope Francis
by hazelelponiSC · Published September 30, 2018 · Last modified September 29, 2018
No one can remain indifferent to the way minority groups are increasingly the object of so much fear, scorn and hatred, Pope Francis said. And he warned those who profit from exploiting foreigners...
Ethics & Human Dignity / Magliano
by Tony Magliano · Published September 1, 2018 · Last modified August 31, 2018
In the last judgment scene of Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus sends a severe warning that hell awaits those who ignore meeting the essential human needs of the poor and vulnerable – and thus likewise, ignore...
