Transnational commitments are celebrated, while attachment to the nation‑state is treated with suspicion
The new pope’s gentle, yet powerful, voice of peace, ethical leadership and human solidarity contrasts sharply with Trump’s divisive rhetoric and militarism
It is important for South Africa’s about 3.5 million Catholics to know that the church approves, especially given the low donor rates in the country
In recent months, there has been a spate of abductions, assaults, arrests and murders, the victims all being opponents or critics of President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s government
As empire builders use violence, greed and environmental destruction to attain their goals, we are in need of citizens of the Kingdom of God who live the gospel
Francis refused the version of Catholicism that ingratiates itself with the powerful while abandoning the poor
Drew Forrest uses one of South Africa’s most important hominid discoveries to debate the paradoxes and contradictions inherent in the religious doctrine of ‘ensoulment’
He developed liberation theology, rooted in the lived experience of the oppressed, and committed to transforming unjust social and political structures
If we make God in our image, let it not be the genocidal maniac worthy only of contempt but rather a God of kindness, worthy of our worship