Catholic social teaching has values the world needs, says Dominican

Individual rights and freedom obviously are essential for human flourishing, but human happiness depends a lot on relationships — kinship and friendship, but also the broader common good, said Dominican Sister Helen Alford. The 2007-2008 global financial crisis, the climate crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic — “these are some of the results of a too... Read More

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July 29, 2020

Some Christians see Turkey’s Hagia Sophia move as attempt to expand Islam

Catholics and other Christians are upset by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s conversion of Hagia Sophia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, into a functioning mosque where Muslim Friday prayers were recited recently. Many observers see the controversial move as part of Erdogan’s bigger attempt to re-enact the Ottoman Empire expansionism in the Middle East by... Read More

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June 4, 2020

Christians and Muslims hope Mosul project helps rebuild trust

Christians and Muslims hope a project to reconstruct Mosul’s iconic places of worship, badly damaged by Daesh militants during their 2014-2017 occupation of the city, will also help to rebuild trust between Iraq’s fractured religious communities. “Walking in the streets of Mosul, I saw a young neighbour, probably born after the 2003 US-led invasion of... Read More

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May 4, 2020

An Irish Dominican brother who trained as a doctor is back treating patients with Covid-19

Br Chris Gault, who has been studying for the priesthood with the Dominicans, has returned to his native Belfast, Northern Ireland, and donned surgical scrubs to be part of the fight against the virus in the Mater Misericordiae Hospital where he once served. He graduated from Queen’s University in 2013 and completed foundation training as... Read More

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September 18, 2018

Catholic Charities distributes disaster relief to areas hit by Florence

The Carolinas were hard hit with record rainfall and flooding rivers from tropical storm Florence since it made landfall on 14th September. And although the storm was downgraded from a hurricane to a Category 1 tropical storm, it still caused extensive water damage. At least 24 people died in storm-related incidents, tens of thousands of... Read More

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July 31, 2018

Contraception feeds violence against women, papal theologian says

The widespread use of contraception has led to increased violence and aggression against women, the theologian of the papal household said during a visit to Sydney. Dominican Fr Wojciech Giertych, appointed to his position by Pope Benedict XVI in 2005, said that the contraceptive mentality has distorted male sexuality, leading to violence toward women. “Contraception... Read More

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June 17, 2018

Nuns join zoo in race to save salamander

Experts from Chester Zoo have teamed up with an order of Mexican nuns in a bid to save one of the world’s rarest amphibians from extinction. The zoo team and Michoacána University are working with Dominican Sisters based near Lake Pátzcuaro to develop a breeding programme for a local salamander which is critically endangered. Lake... Read More

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November 23, 2016

In South Africa, stigma still keeps HIV patients from seeking treatment

Each week, 2,000 women ages 15-24 are infected with HIV in South Africa. In poor communities, young women are mostly infected through sex with older men who provide for them and, while testing is easy and readily available, few men get tested until they are seriously ill. “Men have told me that the reason for... Read More

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