Mexican Trump wall builders are traitors say Mexico’s bishops. This includes everyone involved, even shareholders and suppliers. Mexico opposes the wall. In an editorial entitled “Treason against Homeland” published in a Mexican news journal the Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico said: “Any company that intends to invest in the fanatic Trump wall would be immoral, but Read more
Slavery, forced-labour and human trafficking are all alive and well in Australia, the Archbishop of Sydney says. Speaking at the parliamentary inquiry into human trafficking in New South Wales, Archbishop Anthony Fisher outlined his personal experience of these practises. He said when he was a parish priest a South American nanny asked him for help. Read more
Pope Francis is trying to reduce what he sees is the excessive idealisation and idolisation of the papacy. “I do not see myself as something special, I am a sinner and am fallible.” “We must not forget that the idealisation of a person is always a subliminal kind of aggression. When I am idealised, I Read more
Cardinal Raymond Burke says if Pope Francis doesn’t answer the five dubia questions he and three other cardinals put to him about Amoris Laetitia last December, he will correct them himself. Burke says the Pope must answer the dubia questions as they are about the foundations of moral life and the Church’s teaching about good Read more
Nigerian Christians are being starved in refugee camps. They are often forced to the back of food and essential supply queues by other refugees because they are Christian and in the minority. They have had to flee from Boko Haram and are in camps in northern Nigeria. Read more
Photos of Pope Francis shape the way we see him. We believe what we see. Consider the way Francis was presented in his diplomatic visit to Cuba. Then consider his upcoming trip to Egypt. How will the media portray him? Which images will they choose – and why? Read more
A same sex couple from New South Wales have had their wish to adopt a four-year old Catholic child granted despite opposition from the child’s parents. The child will not be raised in the Catholic faith. Both the child’s birth parents are Catholics. The child was removed from her mother’s care when she was only Read more
The European Union risks dying, Pope Francis told 27 heads of state from the 28-nation bloc who were visiting Rome on Friday. They were there for the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. The Treaty was the foundation document for what is now the European Union (EU). “When a body loses its sense of Read more
A day in the fast lane would be a fair description of Pope Francis’s day in Milan. During the whirlwind trip on Saturday, Francis found time to visit a housing project, Muslim families and elderly people. He also spoke with clergy and religious, had lunch at a prison and finished off by meeting newly confirmed Read more
Mafia godfathers – bosses of the scandalous crime syndicates – have been banned from standing as godparents at baptisms or as sponsors at confirmations. Sicilian Archbishop Michele Pennisi, an outspoken Mafia critic, says he wants to challenge the idea that crime bosses have a paternal side. “The Mafia has always taken the term godfather from Read more