by Sean Reilly | Feb 1, 2008
Norway’s government has praised the country’s small Roman Catholic Church for its role in supporting more than 100,000 labour migrants from Poland and other eastern European countries – writes Oivind Ostang. “We have become increasingly aware...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 1, 2008
In a provocative short article in the International Herald Tribune newspaper, Phillip Blond, who has long been associated with the Cambridge-originated group of scholars exploring a post-modern ‘radical orthodoxy’ school of Christian thought and practice, argues that...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 1, 2008
Celebrating a 60th birthday for some is a milestone marked by visions of retirement – celebrating achievements and dreaming of new endeavours. The World Council of Churches (WCC), however, on its 60th “birthday” in 2008 does not want to rest on past...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 31, 2008
Christian leaders in Burundi have called on a church-sponsored group led by former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano to reach out to the rebel Palipehutu-Forces for National Liberation (FNL), the last remaining insurgent group in the Central African country....
by Sean Reilly | Jan 31, 2008
As the political and economic crisis continues in Zimbabwe, two senior Catholic figures from England and Wales have been making a pastoral visit to the troubled country, offering support to churches and grassroots communities. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor and...
