The Philippines has suffered damaging floods despite the billions of pesos paid to contractors for hundreds of flood control projects, mostly in Bulacan province. The Senate has uncovered fake projects, overcosting and underperformance by contractors. Some senators claim in recent hearings that corruption is so widespread. Investigators cannot cope and law enforcement against fraud and…
Caritas Internationalis issued a statement on “the man-made famine and assault on Gaza City” following the Israel Defense Forces’ latest incursion into the embattled enclave, where the United Nations declared famine last week. “This is not war. It is the systematic destruction of civilian life,” the renowned international Catholic aid organisation wrote in its August…
Sabrina Steffans, a high schooler in New York, US is now allowed to decorate her school parking space with Christian messages after her high school reversed course after initially rejecting her faith-based artwork. Grand Island High School allows seniors to paint their parking spots, but when Ms Steffans, a Christian who leads a Bible club…
Dear Editor, having read Fr John Harris’ article ‘the world at war and the Beatitudes’ (The Irish Catholic, August 21) I note the omission of the main cause of global violence and destruction of life – abortion. As St Mother Teresa of Calcutta stated “there can be no peace in the world while we support…
The Holy See Press Office has published a series of decisions by Pope Leo XIV to bring about unity in the Syro-Malabar Church of India, which has been at serious risk of schism in recent years due to liturgical disputes. The Syro-Malabar Church is one of the 23 Eastern churches in full communion with the…
Pope Leo XIV said he was offering prayers for the victims of the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting, one he described as an “extremely difficult” and “terrible” tragedy. Two children were killed in a shooting incident at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis, United States on August 27, with the gunman taking his own life after the deadly…
The Wizard of Oz is a classic, and an endless treasure trove of metaphor for many things. Might something also be learned by putting this timeless story into dialogue with the journey of synodality we are all on within the Catholic Church? In August 1939 Dorothy, the Tin Man, Scarecrow, and Lion were launched onto…
Pope Leo XIV reaffirms the natural family as the key to peace and harmony in society, writes Fr Kevin O’Reilly OP Shortly after his election to the See of Peter, Pope Leo XIV’s stated during an audience that family is “founded upon the stable union between a man and a woman.” While orthodox Catholics welcomed…
Readings: Wisdom 9:13-18 Philemon 9-10, 12-17 Luke 14:25-33 Education? Erudition? Expertise? Are these the same as wisdom? Do they automatically translate into prudence? This Sunday’s readings don’t give us a clear-cut answer to that question. Instead —as so often happens in the pages of Scripture—they point us toward those dimensions of wisdom that are…
Q: Does the Church ever use the word ‘divorce,’ or in every case is it always an ‘annulment?’ Didn’t Jesus allow for a spouse, in the case of a cheating spouse, to be granted a divorce, even calling it ‘a divorce?’ A: The Church does use the term ‘divorce’ in some contexts, such as when…
Fr Dominik Domagala