The Church & repairing democracy after Trump.
Bruce Duncan. 8 February 2021. The assault on the US Capitol building by Trump supporters trying to overturn the election not only shocked the...
Bruce Duncan. Confronting the powers? Pope Francis on preparing a future for humanity & our planet.
Bruce Duncan. Pope Francis is challenging powerful sectional interests sharply in his new social manifesto to be released on 4 October. The new encyclical,...
Bruce Duncan. Pope Francis: take climate change & unfair economic systems seriously.
Pope Francis has repeatedly challenged us to ‘make some noise’ about the serious issues of climate change, as well as about poverty and extreme...
Bruce Duncan. Covid-19 has stripped us of our illusions about equity and fair play.
Few of us could have imagined that a virus invisible to the human eye could bring the world economy to its knees. Wealthy countries...
Bruce Duncan. On resetting our economic compass after Covid.
Photo Public Housing Rubik’s cube minimalism. Mathew Perkins 2016, flickr cc. 4 June 2020. Greatly concerned about the social and economic consequences of the...
Bruce Duncan. Faith & the triple whammy of coronavirus, economic shutdown, & climate change.
Posted 7 April 2020 The photo spoke volumes – Pope Francis speaking on 27 March to the completely empty square in front of St...
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...
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...
A scorecard on Pope Francis.
Bruce Duncan. Unexpectedly, Pope Francis has emerged as one of the most significant world leaders. Largely unknown before his election, Jorge Bergoglio as Pope...
Consternation over Trump.
Bruce Duncan. The month of May has been a real rollercoaster, with shocking terrorist attacks on innocent people in Britain, Egypt, Afghanistan, and Iraq,...