Alan Storkey November 30, 2015 1.Bombing does not add up to a Policy. The Conservative proposal for bombing ISIS is being presented as policy. It is an attempt to damage ISIS and cause it to contract from the area it is fighting in throughout Iraq and Syria. In part it is a retaliation following the Paris […]

John Dear  Posted: 26/11/2015 02:33 That Friday evening I was just beginning to lead a weekend retreat at the Kirkridge Retreat Center in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, when we received word about the terrorist attacks in Paris. Like everyone else, we were grief-stricken, but we regrouped and became even more determined to dive deep into our […]

Anna Rowlands This summer Europe has been shaken to the core, caught between an open hearted response to an image of a tiny body washed up on a shoreline, and complicated cycles of fear about the arrival of strangers. Meanwhile, a continuous stream of humanity has clambered out of tiny dinghies to begin arduous treks […]

A hospital in Afghanistan is bombed by Paul Schrag Doctors Without Borders wants answers about an Oct. 3 U.S. airstrike that killed 22 people at its hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. They’ve demanded a war-crimes investigation. Was the bombing due to negligence, willful disregard for civilian casualties, or a tragic error amid the “fog of war”? […]

The first part of the prime minister’s statement that “we are a country which, on a per capita basis, takes more refugees than any other” is not correct…The FactCheck focused on the second part of that statement, which is correct. The prime minister is right to say that Australia’s resettlement program through the office of […]

PATHEOS – Francis’ right-leaning critics are telling the Pope that “the proper role of the church is promoting individual salvation and social morality, a mission Francis is jeopardizing by advocating for political change.” More progressive pundits, meanwhile, have loved much of what Francis has had to say (even as they skip over his thoughts on […]

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Increase in murder, as well as rape, torture and discrimination, has led the pope to warn of a ‘form of genocide’ Harriet Sherwood Christians are facing growing persecution around the world, fuelled mainly by Islamic extremism and repressive governments, leading the pope to warn of “a form of genocide” and for campaigners to speak of […]

TURIN, Italy (Reuters) – People who manufacture weapons or invest in weapons industries are hypocrites if they call themselves Christian, Pope Francis said on Sunday. Francis issued his toughest condemnation to date of the weapons industry at a rally of thousands of young people at the end of the first day of his trip to […]

‘Care for Our Common Home’: Taking Up the Moral Challenge of Pope Francis Scott Stephens Yesterday, Pope Francis released his encyclical letter on the “care for our common home” – entitled Laudato Si’. Not since John Paul II’s seismic 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae has a papal document been so eagerly anticipated, and so widely discussed. […]

I continue to speak about (our treatment of refugees) because it is more than a discussion about how we treat refugees: it is now a question about what sort of people we are. Are we a nation that will knowingly mistreat people who have committed no offence, and have done nothing worse than try to […]

The End of National Borders: Thinking Ethically in the Face of Mass Migration Luke Bretherton ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS UPDATED 21 MAY 2015 (FIRST POSTED 20 MAY 2015)   A Christian account of the way we think about our duty of care to our neighbours, near and far, is a more robust and realistic way […]