Christmas and the challenge of inequality

Church Action on Poverty
As church leaders prepare their sermons and talks for Christmas, Church Action on Poverty is encouraging them to reflect on what the Christmas story tells us about poverty and inequality.
David Price, the chair of our local group in Sheffield, has written this special briefing, which we have sent to many of the [...]

Church challenged to broaden its moral scope

By: Ellen Teague
The Catholic Church has been urged “to get away from being a church primarily involved in sexual morality” by Baroness Shirley Williams of Crosby. Speaking to an audience of around 1,000 supporters at CAFOD’s annual Pope Paul VI Memorial Lecture in London on 27 November, she called for church leaders nationally and regionally [...]

Cardinal tells Food Summit: ‘Africa needs water, not GM crops’ Posted

Independent Catholic News
At the Rome Food Summit which opened yesterday,  Cardinal Napier, Archbishop of Durban, said: “I have the impression that this organization does not know what the real problems of nutrition in Africa are. Africans do not need GMOs (genetically modified organisms), but water. We have our crops that grow well without genetic modifications, [...]

A Call to Integrate Faith, Ecology and the Global Economy

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As hope-filled people, we stand in awe of Earth’s goodness and its capacity to provide abundant life for all God’s creation. We recognize our interconnection with Earth — with air, water, land, plants and other creatures. We recognize the dignity of the human person as an individual and [...]

Final message from African Synod

Independent Catholic News
The final message of the Second Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops was presented and voted upon this morning. The president delegate on duty was Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier OFM, archbishop of Durban, South Africa. A first version of the concluding Message of the Synod has been published, extracts of [...]

THE SETTING OF THE SECOND ASSEMBLY: AFRICA’S WOES OR CHALLENGES?

AFJN Blog – Rocco Populo
The “Relatio post disceptationem” was read out in English by Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, archbishop of Cape Coast, Ghana. Extensive extracts from the document are given below:
THE SETTING OF THE SECOND ASSEMBLY: AFRICA’S WOES OR CHALLENGES?
Very many positive changes have been registered both in the Church and in the larger [...]

Exerpts from Final message from African Synod

Independent Catholic News
The final message of the Second Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops was presented and voted upon this morning. The president delegate on duty was Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier OFM, archbishop of Durban, South Africa. A first version of the concluding Message of the Synod has been published, extracts of [...]

Where to Find African Synod Information

If you wish to follow the daily summaries from the Vatican of the African Synod, click on the following link.
www.vatican.va/news_services/press/sinodo/documents/bollettino_23_ii_speciale-africa-2009/bollettino_23_ii_speciale-africa-2009_index_en.html
The following link to the “Yes Africa Matters” website will lead you to reports from other sources.
http://sites.google.com/site/yesafricamattersorg/

THE SETTING OF THE SECOND ASSEMBLY: AFRICA’S WOES OR CHALLENGES?

AFJN Blog – Rocco Populo
The “Relatio post disceptationem” was read out in English by Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, archbishop of Cape Coast, Ghana. Extensive extracts from the document are given below:

Ghanaian archbishop says church has failed Africa

National Catholic Reporter
Instead of synod of bishops, why not a ‘pastoral congress of the universal church’?
Oct. 14, 2009
John L. Allen Jr. Vatican
Rome
Here’s an exercise to try sometime: Find any random cross-section of twenty people who know something about Catholicism in Africa, and ask them to tick off five names of the most impressive African [...]