St. Augustine has much to teach us about the meritocracy and recent college admissions bribery scandals.
Africa
Posted inEditorials, Faith
After Pope Francis’ Africa trip, stay focused on a ‘poor church for the poor’
Throughout the visit to Africa, we were invited to see what a “poor church for the poor” looks like. Let’s keep our attention there, the Editors write.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Pope Francis shined a light on the hopes and challenges in Madagascar, Catholic Relief Services says
The ecological restoration work here is locked in a race against deforestation as hard-pressed Malagasy turn to the forests to make charcoal, build homes or clear the forest for subsistence food production.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Why is Pope Francis talking about schism? An inside look at the pope’s trip to Africa
Fresh off the papal flight, Gerry tells us if a schism may actually happen.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis praises diversity of Mauritius but encourages greater openness to migrants
Pope Francis encouraged the Mauritian people to support “a better division of income and the integral promotion of the poor” and “not to yield to the temptation of an idolatrous economic model that sacrifices human lives on the altar of speculation and profit alone.”
Posted inFaith
Pope Francis pens prayer for Madagascan workers
An English translation of the pope’s prayer in Madagascar.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
400 years after first Jesuits arrived, Pope Francis celebrates Mass in Mauritius
“Our young people are our foremost mission! We must invite them to find their happiness in Jesus,” the pope said at Mass for 368,000 Catholics.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
“Poverty is not inevitable!”: Pope Francis’ message to the young people of Madagascar
Father Opeka welcomed Pope Francis to Akamasoa which, he said, “was one a zone of exclusion, suffering violence and death” but over the past 30 years “Divine Providence has created an ‘oasis of hope’ in which children have regained their dignity, young people have returned to work and their parents have begun to work to prepare a future for their children.”
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis in Madagascar: We cannot remain indifferent.
On Sunday, Sept. 8, his last day in Madagascar, Pope Francis celebrated Mass for approximately one million people. The overwhelming majority of those present at Mass are poor, but they love Francis because they see him as “a man of God” and “the pope of the poor,” one who is on their side in world where they have so little.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis calls on Madagascar’s leaders to fight corruption, eliminate poverty and protect the environment
On his first day in Madagascar, Pope Francis issued a strong call to the governmental authorities of this island of 27 million people to fight “with determination” against “endemic forms of corruption and speculation,” to “confront” the situations that “create conditions of inhumane poverty,” and to protect the environment against damage to nature and the people.