Posts Tagged ‘Civility’

Editorial Comment: “See how they love one another”

Thursday, December 5th, 2024

The editors at CathNews New Zealand and Pacific have been saddened by some aggressive and even offensive comments that have been submitted to our website. Not all of them have been approved for publication. – Originally reported 29 May 2015. Feed-back we have received would lead us to believe we are not alone in our Read more

Civility and life in the Catholic Church

Thursday, September 28th, 2017

As I write these words I’m looking at an untitled cartoon from the National Catholic Reporter in the Wojtyla-era 1980s. It’s an image of an elaborate canopy with praying angels draped over a Chair of Peter—in this case, a toilet with the papal insignia. It’s tied to a column that argues, among other things, that the “Catholic Read more