The Archbishop’s address at this year’s State of the Nation Conference deserves our full attention. To those who will accuse him of hypocrisy, when referring to how reputation is hard to build but so easily lost he himself acknowledged that: “I’m acutely aware that the Church is not immune to this. And we have an unfortunate habit of learning this painful lesson the hard way.”

The most striking statement of his address was this: “When informal networks become more powerful than formal institutions, the danger is no longer simply corruption… Read more »

“Nature is screaming. Stop! Stop!”

These words from Pope Francis in documentary The Letter: A Message for Our Earth are no longer a warning about a distant future. They describe the reality unfolding before our very eyes.

This summer has brought record-breaking heatwaves. Wildfires have devastated large parts of the Mediterranean. Sea temperatures have reached unprecedented levels… Read more »