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Latest issue: 13 July 2001  The truth about priestsAlan PhillipFor many priests, celibacy is a true vocation which liberates them. For others, it is a lifelong struggle. If celibacy was made voluntary, not only would many priests be happier, but the Church would be richer, according to a Passionist priest from California. He describes his vision for the future.
Church in the WorldBenedictine prioress defends Sr Joan in defiance of Vatican |
AfricaMarian apparitions authentic, says Rwandan bishop. In a formal declaration, a bishop in Rwanda has said that the Virgin Mary regularly appeared to three young women in the southern town of Kibeho in the early 1980s, Ellen Teague reports. 'There are more reasons to believe than deny it', Bishop Augustin Misago of Gikongoro said in a 29 June declaration, excerpts of which were read out in Gikongoro cathedral during a solemn Mass attended by all the country?s bishops and the papal nuncio to Rwanda | AmericasMexico?s president barred from Holy Communion |
EuropeBasilica to commemorate crash victims | RomeOld hands teach new bishops the ropes |
South AsiaPersecution of Christians in Pakistan on the increase. Intolerance against the Christian minority in the overwhelmingly Muslim country of Pakistan has increased in recent years, according to Bishop Joseph Coutts of the diocese of Faisalabad. While day-to-day relations between Christians and Muslims continue to be relatively peaceable, there are at the same time radical Islamic groups in Pakistan who are seeking to impose a militant form of Islam, the bishop alleged during a recent visit to the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need |
Why convert the saved?
The Catholic Church does not support organisations which aim to convert Jews. Nor should it, argues the associate director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. For the Church believes that Judaism is salvific for Jews....
A land of blood and poison
Last year in Colombia, there were 70 murders every day - according to government figures. Soldiers, death squads and guerrillas struggle for supremacy in rural areas, and the US-backed Plan Colombia is not helping. A freelance journalist specialising in Latin American affairs reports....
Drop the front page
Britain's tabloid newspapers offer an orgy of sensationalism and trivia. They are often feared to be moulding public opinion, but they could merely be reflecting it, argues the religion and royalty correspondent of the Guardian newspaper....
What does forgiveness mean?
The impending release of the murderers of the toddler James Bulger has raised questions about public punishment, retribution and forgiveness. In December 1995, Frances Lawrence's husband Philip, a Catholic headmaster, was murdered outside his London school. She describes her feelings towards Learco Chindamo who murdered him....
