People cannot sit back and be indifferent or unresponsive to growing poverty in the world as a privileged minority accumulates “ostentatious wealth,” Pope Francis said. “God created the heavens and the earth for all;...
Violence near South Sudan’s border with Congo has driven 6,000 people from the countryside to shelter in the shadows of the village church, where some have been surviving on mangoes. Before the mangoes, there...
Fr Thabang Nkadimeng OMI – He missed the 40th anniversary by two years, but when Pope Benedict XVI published his social encyclical Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth) it followed Paul VI’s 1967 encyclical...
US-based Tony Magliano looks at two men whose love for the people is evidenced in their writings… Fifty years ago, Blessed Pope Paul VI gave to the world a truly prophetic encyclical letter Populorum...
Fr Kevin Reynolds, Pretoria – There is a significant link in your February 22 issue between a report on Cardinal Wilfrid Napier’s reference to the possible beatification/canonisation of the late Archbishop Denis Hurley OMI...
US-based Tony Magliano analyses the present crisis in South Sudan People are beginning to starve to death in South Sudan. The United Nations has formally declared that a state of famine exists in this...
People who don’t give money to the homeless because they think it will be spent on alcohol and not food should ask themselves what guilty pleasures they are secretly spending money on, Pope Francis...
You may not have heard about it, but it was a big deal – big enough to inspire Pope Francis to get involved. The big deal was the under-reported US Regional World Meeting...
Us-based Tony Magliano examines the effects of global greed and how it affects us all… In many places throughout the world there is a widening gulf, chasm, gap between races, tribes, classes, cultures, economic...
Christmas came early for me at Rhino Camp. I don’t mean in the form of tinsel or turkey or even good Scotch. Christmas came for me in human form 11 years ago, that first feast...
Program helps Guatemalans fight child malnutrition with gardens and good hygiene. As a 12-year-old working as a farm labourer, Elvia Abac vowed that when she grew up, her children would never go hungry the...
Tony Magliano, based in the US, takes stock of the realities post-Trump election – For those of us using the Gospel and Catholic social teaching as our voting guide, choosing between the Democratic and Republican...
