Asia Bibi’s Fate After 8 Years
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...
Category: Ethics & Human Dignity
Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen
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...
Death Penalty: Whose Rights?
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...
Palliative Care, Pain Management & Treating Whole Person
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...
Pope: Those Exploiting Foreigners for Profit will Pay on Judgment Day
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...
I was a Stranger and You Took my Child from Me
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...
Has Society’s Acceptability of Porn Hit a New High?
The percentage of Americans who say pornography is morally acceptable increased more over the past year than in all other years this decade combined.
CPLO: Rural Poor Move to Cities at Increasing Rate
The CPLO has warned that shack-building is increasing due to high levels of unemployment and urbanisation, with the number of households living in backyard-dwellings up by 55% during the previous decade.
Our Call to Welcome the Stranger
Today is World Refugee Day. To mark the occasion, Daluxolo Moloantoa explains how the Catholic Scalabrini centres respond to Christ: “I was a stranger and you welcomed me”(Mt 25:35). The Catholic Scalabrini Centre has...
How a True Football Hero Emerged
One of my proudest childhood moments was when my father, a great football journalist, quizzed me about the 1974 World Cup.
Pope: Cheating Workers Out of Just Wages is a Mortal Sin
Loving wealth destroys the soul, and cheating people of their just wages and benefits is a mortal sin, Pope Francis said. Jesus did not mince words when he said, “Woe to you who are rich,” after listing the Beatitudes as written according to St. Luke, the pope said in a morning homily.
Is Your T-Shirt Worth a Human Life?
A disaster in a building of clothing factories in Bangladesh five years ago changed fashion forever, with many now insisting on ethical production and consumption, as South African fashion writer CLOUDS DRUMMOND explains.
