E-News Vol 1 - No. 7

ALMOST 20 years ago Jerome Murphy O'Connor wrote a book called Becoming Human Together. He summarised St Paul's understanding of what it meant to be human. (more)

Archbishop Charles Maung Bo, Archbishop of Yangon writes: Compassion is the common religion in the post disaster phase. In Myanmar people lived with various tags - religion, colour and tribe. (more)

A visit to China's mid-west region give a more balanced idea of the real situation in the country today. At the end of October I travelled by train from Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province, to Zunyi (more)

"With good reason he can be called a "European" saint, because as monk, missionary and writer, he worked in several countries of Western Europe." The catechesis given by the Holy Father Benedict XVI was dedicated to "the holy Abbot Columban (more)

Joanna, 15, sat in the dim restaurant weeping and crying, her shoulders shook, she dabbed her eyes to wipe away the flowing tears with tissues. Were they tears of joy at being rescued from her cruel and vicious captors (more)

Our capacity for self-delusion is seemingly endless and never more pronounced than when it serves to distract us from the inevitability of death (more)