Ousted Caritas chief denounces Vatican ‘power grab’
Vatican CityAP The Vatican’s main charitable organisation, Caritas Internationalis, is hoping to open a new chapter this week after Pope Francis fired top managers over bullying complaints. But the recently ousted head is fighting back, claiming the Vatican engaged in a “brutal power grab” fueled by a “colonialist” attitude. The drama is playing out as […]
Freedom (as a child)
Freedom is such a hard concept. In my own life I have felt most free as a child on holidays. Nothing to do but play outside. Riding bikes, pets, playing cricket, or in the mud. PICTURE: MI PHAM/Unsplash But is that even freedom? I was safe in the world mum and dad made. I had […]
Essay: Undoing the Christian nationalism of the Doctrine of Discovery
ANDREW WHITEHEAD, an associate professor of sociology at the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis and author of the forthcoming ‘American Idolatry’, says more direct action from the Catholic Church is necessary to uproot the remnants of the doctrine…
Postcards: The end of an era for the Sisters of Charity of New York
LUIS ANDRES HENAO, of Associated Press, reports from New York City…
Migrants amass along US-Mexico border as COVID-era restrictions near end
El Paso, Texas, USReuters US border agents in El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday urged hundreds of migrants amassing on city streets to surrender to authorities as illegal crossings rose in the run-up to the end of COVID-19 border restrictions known as Title 42 later this week. At the same time, migrants were gathering at different […]
Southern Baptists lost nearly half a million members in 2022
United StatesRNS The long, slow decline of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination continues. Membership in the Southern Baptist Convention was down by nearly half a million in 2022, according to a recently released denomination report. Nashville-based Lifeway Research reported on Tuesday that the SBC had 13.2 million members in 2022, down from 13.68 million in […]