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...
Category: Global Issues
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
Why We Can’t be Silent to Cries of Poor
World Day of the Poor was first proposed in 2016 in Pope Francis’ apostolic letter for the Year of Mercy, Misericordia et misera, which calls on the faithful to “make a serious examination of conscience, to see if we are truly capable of hearing the cry of the poor”.
Tlhagale: Halo of Priesthood is Now Broken
Archbishop Buti Tlhagale of Johannesburg has called for the excommunication of all priests who abuse minors, and spoke with concern about the anger of young South Africans at what he called “broken promises”.
