Financial and economic decisions ranging from where a family chooses to invest its savings to where a multinational corporation declares its tax residence are ethical decisions that can be virtuous or sinful, a new Vatican document has said. “There can be no area of human action that legitimately claims to be either outside of or…
Opening a new US embassy in Jerusalem this week without resolving conflict in the region will have “extreme results”, according to a Catholic priest based in the West Bank. Violence broke out between Palestinian protesters and Israeli soldiers during fierce protests. International media reported that in Gaza, at least 52 Palestinians were killed, including five…
South Africa’s bishops condemned an attack on a mosque near Durban in which a man was killed and another two injured. Mechanic Abbas Mohamedelo Essop died after his throat was cut in the attack on the mosque in Verulam, about 20 miles north of Durban. Three men armed with guns and knives set the mosque…
It’s hard to discuss detrimental environmental effects of using the diesel fuel needed to run generators in Gaza when people only have three hours of government-provided electricity a day, Tahani Abu Daqqa, former Palestinian Minister of Culture, has said. Catholics are influenced by the environment in which they live, so while Catholics living in Israel…
Heeding a call from Toronto Cardinal Thomas Collins to “speak more loudly by silence” Canada’s largest pro-life march reversed course after it was blocked for at least 20 minutes by a counter protest. An estimated 75-100 demonstrators in favour of allowing abortion, some wearing black bandanas over their faces, screamed chants and waved signs, halting…
The Church in Cameroon said shots were fired at the residence of Archbishop Samuel Kleda, president of the bishops’ conference, after he criticised policies by the government of President Paul Biya. “Projectiles were shot at the Archdiocese of Douala headquarters, breaking its windows,” the local vicar general Msgr Dieudonne Bayemeg said in a statement. “There…
Trial starts for Vatican official accused of embezzlement The Vatican has accused a former director of the Vatican bank and his lawyer of money laundering and embezzlement, saying the men skimmed an estimated €57 million off profits from the sale of Vatican properties. The trial of Angelo Caloia, who served as president of the Institute for the Works of Religion, the formal…
Junno Arocho Esteves While taking selfies can be an occasion to capture treasured memories, it can also be a sign that young men and women are deprived of meaningful human interaction with others Pope Francis said. The Pontiff responded to questions yesterday, May 14, at a meeting with 1,700 priests and lay leaders of…
Bishop John Keenan of Paisley has criticised a video on homophobia posted by BBC Scotland in which the Eucharist is parodied, being said to “taste like cardboard” and “smell like hate”. The video ‘This is how homophobia feels in 2018’ was posted on April 9 on the Facebook page of BBC The Social, a project…
For more than 50 years, the writings of retired Pope Benedict XVI on the relationship between Faith and politics have insisted that the measure of human freedom is the extent to which each person acknowledges being dependent on the love of God, Pope Francis wrote. The future Pope’s “direct experience of Nazi totalitarianism led him…