Bruce Duncan. Pope Francis & the bushfires.
6 February 2020. Pope Francis warned of the dangers of ‘catastrophic’ weather events, like savage fires resulting from climate change, in his 2015 document,...
The Amazon crises & the Amazon Synod (October 6-27 2019).
Rowan Ireland. Posted 28 November 2019. This year, several international crises in the Amazon have come to the boil, just as planning and preliminary...
Why the Amazon fires strike dread in our hearts.
Bruce Duncan. The extraordinary fires in the Amazon in August 2019 struck dread into the hearts of climate specialists and observers worldwide, since the...
Bruce Duncan. The sirens are blaring about climate ‘catastrophe’. Are we deaf?
A searing heatwave has swept over western and southern Europe, and even in the USA. In France, temperatures were the highest on record, reaching...
The ethical imperative for a just world.
Peter Whiting. Wedged appropriately into the two days between the Easter celebration of the Resurrection, with its promise of a new order, and the...
Pope Francis and Grand Imam firmly denounce violence in the name of God.
Bruce Duncan. Shocked by savage attacks on Muslims by a radicalised Australian in New Zealand, of all places, and on Christians and other Sri...
Uniting against terrorism: Pope Francis & Muslim leaders in Abu Dhabi.
Bruce Duncan. Pope Francis has made dialogue with Islam a high priority, as he is acutely aware that the scourge of war and displacement...
Austen Ivereigh on Pope Francis.
Prominent UK author Dr Austen Ivereigh. Close & concrete: Pope Francis evangelising in a world of flux’. Tuesday 21 March 2019 5-6:30pmThe Oratory Newman...
Did Pope Francis succeed in Myanmar?
Bruce Duncan. Myanmar’s neighbours were watching closely the Pope’s visit, worried that the shocking treatment of the Rohingya Muslims could inflame inter-religious conflicts throughout...
Francis’s World Day of the Poor. “The poor are our passports to paradise”.
Bruce Duncan. Even atheists, agnostics, and humanists, as well as people of the great religious traditions, would likely welcome Pope Francis in June 2017...
We can make our society fair.
Peter Whiting. The new minimum wage rate has come into effect on 1 July. The Fair Work Commission (FWC) recently announced an increase of...