Pope Francis’ social teaching offers a dire and needed warning about the twin calamities of economic inequality and climate change, said Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, and Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs at a Sept. 5 seminar at Fordham...
Jesus himself showed that the best way to respond to scandal and divisiveness is to stay silent and pray, Pope Francis said Sept. 3 as he resumed his early morning Masses with invited guests. “With people lacking good- will, with people who seek only scandal, with...
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano (r), former apostolic nuncio to the United States, German Cardinal Walter Brandmuller stands next to during opening prayer at a conference on Blessed Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical, “Humanae Vitae,” in Rome Oct. 28 A former apostolic nuncio to...
Transgressing all barriers of religion and caste, rich and poor, high and low, Indians have joined hands to provide succour to people reeling under the worst flood in five decades in Kerala. Justice Kurien Joseph, a Supreme Court judge, Catholic and Kerala native,...
Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen said the minori-ties and the liberal forces in India, who oppose the divi-sive politics of the present day, need to be more vocal and assertive. Discussing the present scenario in India, Sen said those ruling the country do not...
