Judging the Signs of the Times
In the Gospel of Matthew, there is a scene where the Pharisees and Sadducees, in their desire to test Jesus, ask him to show them a sign. In reply to them, Jesus says that...
Category: Global Issues
Fr Pierre Goldie: Big Business Must Now Give Back
It is surprising to note how many commentators contend that the pandemic, apart from its devastating effect on life and the economy, is heralding a new way of doing things, a new way of...
Fragile People Living on a Fragile Planet
As the dreadful coronavirus pandemic clearly illustrates: Life is fragile. In just a matter of a few months, the highly contagious Covid-19 has killed over 225,000 people, sickened many more, eliminated millions of jobs...
A Christian State of the Nation Address
My fellow brothers and sisters in Christ: As followers of the God whose very essence is love, a love so deep and abundant that this love took on human flesh and dwelt among us...
Experts: Protests reflect world frustration with inequality, corruption
By Barbara J. Fraser – From Chile to Haiti to Hong Kong, protests appear to be sweeping the globe. Although sparked by different events, they also reflect a common frustration with economic inequality and corrupt...
Hong Kong Bishop Reminds People That All Involved In Protests Are Human
As demonstrations pitting pro-government groups against pro-democracy protesters continue, a bishop urged Catholics to pray for the realisation that all are humans and not “cockroaches or dogs.” Ucanews.org reported Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Ha Chi-shing...
They Come At Night: Syrians Flee To Iraq As Cease-Fire Set To Expire
By Dale Gavlak – When Rifaa, her husband and three daughters escaped into Iraq in the dead of night, “there were dead bodies on the street” in Qamishli, Syria. “We found a smuggler to bring...
Nuns Try to Fight Lure of Europe by Offering Programs for Young Nigerians
By Valentine Iwenwanne – Fatima Atewe, a single mother, knew it would be hard work, but she was excited to start a new job loading bricks into delivery trucks, earning as much as $27 a...
Catholics Denounce Attacks Against Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples in Amazon
By Eduardo Campos Lima – After denouncing the record number of wildfires in the Amazon in August and the growing deforestation of the region, the Brazilian Catholic Church is pressuring the government to guarantee the...
God is Calling us to Break Violence’s Stranglehold on our World
The recent tragic mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas, killing at least 29 people, point to an ongoing epidemic of mass shootings in the United States. As of Aug. 5,...
After attacks, New Zealand bishops tell Muslims: ‘We hold you in prayer’
By Michael Otto Catholic News Service – New Zealand’s Catholic bishops have expressed horror and distress at a terrorist attack in two mosques in Christchurch that saw at least 49 people killed. The shootings took...
Pope: Drop the ‘Phobia of the Poor’
People must make “a serious examination of conscience to understand whether we are really capable of listening to the poor,” the pope said in a message for World Day of the Poor
