From Violence to Respect for Life
On 17 January it was the U.S. holiday commemorating the great civil and human rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. On the evening of April 4,...
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2022 World Day of Peace message: Yes, to human needs! No, to militarisation!
Fifty-five years ago, on Jan. 1, 1968, with the Vietnam War raging, and numerous other armed conflicts causing untold death and destruction, St. Pope Paul VI initiated...
Building God’s Kingdom in the New Year
The powerful temptation to build earthly kingdoms has been a painful thorn lodged deep within the human psyche from ancient times to the present day. Kingdoms from...
A Christmas Miracle – When Enemies became Brothers
As the first Christmas of World War I approached, Pope Benedict XV on December 7, 1914, asked the leaders of all warring governments to agree to an...
We Owe it to Them
During the US-led coalition’s 20 year devastating war in Afghanistan against the Taliban, the poverty-stricken people of that nation suffered the brutalities of war of which most...
Climate Change Risks Devastating Conflicts – Even Nuclear War
As climate change rages along its disastrous path of increasing and more intense natural disasters – hurting the poor most of all – it now appears that...
Pope Francis at his Prophetic Best!
Clearly siding with the world’s poor and marginalised in a video message for the recent Fourth World Meeting of Popular Movements, Pope Francis boldly declared, “Seeing you...
No One Should Ever Go Hungry – Yet Millions Do
There is one war we need to fight. For without our intervention, countless people will suffer, and thousands of children will continue dying daily. The name of...
Conservatives and liberals unite for life – it’s the Catholic way!
For Catholics who put their faith first, before anything else, there is one way – above all others – to view the life and death issues facing...
Where human life begins, the abortion debate ends
At a recent White House press conference, President Joe Biden said, “I respect those who believe life begins at the moment of conception. I don’t agree, but...
Afghanistan’s clear lesson: War is not the answer
Was it good that the United States and its allies fought a 20-year war against the Taliban in Afghanistan? Was all of the blood, sweat and tears...
Warning! – Code Red for Humanity
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group’s recently released report is a “code red for humanity,” warned U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. “The alarm bells are...
