August 2009
Just Strike?
By Chris Chatteris SJ, on 4 August 2009.The strike season is upon us again. On the one hand we should welcome it as a sign of normality. This is what happens in democratic societies as part of the usual collective bargaining process.
Aids, Ancestors and Salvation: Local beliefs in Christian ministry to the sick
Submitted by Peter Knox SJ on 5 August 2009 - 1:29pmAids, Ancestors and Salvation: Local beliefs in Christian ministry to the sick by Peter Knox SJ
Aids, Ancestors and Salvation: Local beliefs in Christian ministry to the sick by Peter Knox SJ
The Church and the Media
Submitted by Chris Chatteris SJ on 5 August 2009 - 1:36pmThe Church and the Media by Chris Chatteris SJ
The Church and the Media by Chris Chatteris SJ
Not If We Run Out, But When
By Chris Chatteris SJ, on 13 August 2009.The crash of the oil price from a peak of almost $140 last year swept the question of 'peak oil' from the media radar screen. However it's sneaking back again as the price creeps up with hopes for economic recovery. 'World is fast running out of oil, warns IEA' proclaimed the Business Report of Aug 4 2009.
Caritas in Veritate: An Integral Development Manifesto
By Anthony Egan SJ, on 25 August 2009.In his book To the Finland Station (1940), Edmund Wilson argues that “the Communist Manifesto is dense with the packed power of high explosives. It compresses with terrific vigour into forty or fifty pages a grand theory of history, an analysis of European society and a program for revolutionary action.” Apart from being longer than Marx and Engels’ famous tome – it is 72 pages in the Paulines Nairobi edition – Pope Benedict’s new encyclical potentially offers for integral human development what they did for revolution.
