Posted 7 April 2020 The photo spoke volumes – Pope Francis speaking on 27 March to the completely empty square in front of St Peter’s in Rome. Isolated and alone, like so many others due to the coronavirus outbreak, he epitomised the dilemmas we face as the crisis spreads everywhere. An estimated 11 million people […]
Stefan Gigacz 26 January 2020 Catholic Outlook ParramattaPosted 10 March 2020 On 27 January this year, the world will commemorate the liberation by Soviet troops of the infamous camp at Auschwitz, where so many people perished during the Second World War. Sadly, this was not the end for all camps. Many people would continue to die […]
Bruce Duncan Posted 10 March 2020 Many parts of Pope Francis’s response to the recent Amazon Synod could have been written for Australia, especially about European colonisation of the New World, the destruction of indigenous peoples and their cultures, the appropriation of their lands and the despoliation of natural resources. Francis urges renewed efforts to […]
6 February 2020. Pope Francis warned of the dangers of ‘catastrophic’ weather events, like savage fires resulting from climate change, in his 2015 document, Laudato Si’. He still refers to it constantly and gives copies to his visitors. It is the most authoritative of his writings, and has been widely acclaimed by experts in many […]
Rowan Ireland. Posted 28 November 2019. This year, several international crises in the Amazon have come to the boil, just as planning and preliminary jousting led up to the Amazon Synod of Catholic Bishops, which concluded in Rome on 27 October. The three Amazon crises: the ecological, the human, and the political. The ecological crisis, […]
Pope Francis has invited young economists, researchers, entrepreneurs, and change-makers under the age of 35 to come to Assisi for an international event on 26-28 March 2020 to discuss ideas for social and economic reform. The proposal for the Economy of Francesco is to engage the creativity of young researchers and scholars – beyond differences […]
John D’Arcy May. Theology in the face of pluralism & injustice A Public forum of Social Policy Connections and the Centre for Religion & Social Policy (RASP) of the University of Divinity Melbourne, held at Yarra Theological Union 17 September 2019. The Asia-Pacific is not only a geopolitical and multicultural area, but an interreligious context. […]
Bruce Duncan. The extraordinary fires in the Amazon in August 2019 struck dread into the hearts of climate specialists and observers worldwide, since the Amazon forests remain one of the great bulwarks against global warming. They cool Latin America, and generate 20% of the world’s oxygen. Smoke from the fires darkened the sky over Sao […]
A 12-week unit at Yarra Theological College (YTU) Box Hill, offered by Dr Bruce Duncan CSsR. Mondays 6pm from 9 July Pope Francis has been calling for us urgently to address social problems of extreme poverty, inequality, and threats from global warming. This unit examines the responses of Pope Francis and other leaders to recent […]
A searing heatwave has swept over western and southern Europe, and even in the USA. In France, temperatures were the highest on record, reaching 45.9℃, nearly two degrees above the previous record set in 2003, resulting in 15,000 deaths. Some 4000 schools were closed in France because of the heat, and authorities warned people to […]
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