Church / Crisis / Ethics & Human Dignity / Love / Ministry
by Admin · Published August 27, 2020 · Last modified August 26, 2020
Recalling acts of kindness he has experienced in precarious situations. FR DICK O’RIORDAN suggests that the suffering created by the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown call all of us to acts of kindness. In 1974 the...
Bishops / Catholic Social Teaching / Church / Ethics & Human Dignity
by Admin · Published August 8, 2020 · Last modified August 6, 2020
More than a quarter of a century after apartheid, we are called to a new struggle to overcome the legacy of apartheid, according to the bishop of Tzaneen. Bishop João Rodrigues noted that “white superiority...
Christian Living / Crisis / Ethics & Human Dignity / Magliano / Peace & Justice / Violence
by Tony Magliano · Published June 7, 2020
Last year I was knocked to the ground and pinned down by an assailant who held his hand over my mouth. I cried out, “I can’t breathe!” About 30 long seconds later he finally let...
Church / Crisis / Ethics & Human Dignity
by CNS · Published June 3, 2020 · Last modified June 1, 2020
A new kind of front line is emerging on the scene of the next phase of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States: that of workers and security guards in retail establishments that have reopened...
Christian Living / Church / Ethics & Human Dignity / Ministry
by Admin · Published May 25, 2020 · Last modified May 22, 2020
The Covid-19 restrictions have also limited the work of the Apostleship of the Sea, which provides pastoral care to seafarers. But its port chaplains remain committed to their ministry, as GREG WATTS reports. The global Covid-19 crisis...
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 use...
On March 21 we commemorated the 1960 Sharpeville massacre with Human Rights Day. What greater injustice to human rights can there have been than to regard some human beings as superior to others because of...
Christian Living / Church / Environment / Ethics & Human Dignity / Fr Pierre Goldie
by Fr Pierre Goldie · Published March 17, 2020 · Last modified March 16, 2020
Our mission surely is to put Jesus into the economy. Mission is not just braving jungles and deserts; it is also braving the complex world of economics, challenging where necessary the unjust power structures in...
Catholic Social Teaching / Christian Living / Church / Economy / Environment / Ethics & Human Dignity / Fr Pierre Goldie
by Fr Pierre Goldie · Published February 18, 2020
In the name of profit at all cost, we see in the business world rather disquieting practices that effectively undermine basic human dignity. The World Health Organization reports a fall in tobacco consumption of 60...
Church / Erin Carelse / Ethics & Human Dignity / Justice & Peace
by Erin Carelse · Published February 15, 2020
Nearly 20% of people arrested in Hong Kong in 2018/19 for possession of drugs, smuggled the substance via OR Tambo International in Johannesburg, according to a Hong Kong prison chaplain. Fr John Wotherspoon, an Australian...
Church / Ethics & Human Dignity / Fr Chris Townsend / Society
by Chris Townsend · Published November 19, 2019 · Last modified November 18, 2019
Can the #newnobility actually do any good? I recently noticed that a certain established bank — the editor won’t let me use its name, but it has green in its logo—recently supported international polo at...
Church / Ethics & Human Dignity / Magliano
by Tony Magliano · Published October 21, 2019 · Last modified November 1, 2019
Just imagine for a moment that you have no home. What will you do for meals today? Where will you shower? Where will you sleep? If you have children, how will you provide for them?...
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