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Unchurched young adults: searching for truth |
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Monday 26 October 2009
How to attract young people to Christianity is a topic on the mind of just about every church leader today. It's no secret that a large number of young adults don't belong to any church, but that doesn't mean they are insensible to religion, according to a recent book.
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Misplaced compassion: The push to allow assisted suicide in Britain |
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Tuesday 13 October 2009
By Father John Flynn, LC
Debate over assisted suicide flared anew in Britain a few days ago with the news that in doctors were obliged to allow a woman to die who had intentionally swallowed anti-freeze.
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Seal of oonfession goes on trial |
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Friday 28 August 2009
When US priest Father Timothy Mockaitis heard inmate Conan Wayne Hale’s sacramental confession on April 22, 1996, he had no idea it was being recorded.
He also didn't know that the event would spur an unprecedented legal case that attempted to demonstrate that a violation of the seal of the confessional was an infringement on the free exercise of religion guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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Pakistani Christians die in violent attack |
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Tuesday 24 August 2009
For many in Europe and North America the last weeks have been ones of vacation and rest. For Christians in Pakistan, however, it's been a time of renewed violence and death.
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Living in a de-Christianised Britain |
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Monday 6 July 2009
The decline of Christianity and moral values in general is reaching new lows in Britain. While the number of faithful has been decreasing for some time now, warnings about the situation are starting to come from all quarters.
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New Forms of Slavery |
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Monday 29 June 2009
The Vatican and groups of women religious have long been actively working to stop the trafficking of persons, and a recent message of support sent by Pope Benedict XVI to a meeting on the issue held in Rome this month reiterated that this is a Church priority.
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Broken marriages |
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Monday 22 June 2009
Family breakdown is causing social anarchy, according to a speech by an English judge, Justice Paul Coleridge. A senior Family Division judge for England and Wales, he addressed the Family Holiday Association charity on Wednesday evening.
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Bioethics and the myth of relativism |
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Thursday 18 June 2009
By Giovanni Patriarca
A neuroscientist and ethicist is underlining the need to base bioethics in moral principles, and is affirming that even people who profess relativism count on certain absolutes in life.
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World Youth Day’s lasting impact |
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 Monday 18 May 2009
Seven out of 10 young people who attended World Youth Day in Sydney last year rated it as one of the best experiences in their life. This was one of the findings of a survey carried out to measure the impact of the event.
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Getting fundamental on the right to food |
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 Wednesday 13 May 2009
By Jack de Groot, Caritas Australia
Hungry? Go to the fridge or the cupboard and it is likely that if you live in Australia, you will soon have your needs sated. Tonight though, around the world, 1 billion people will go to bed hungry. It is a devastating fact.
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