(katolsk.no) Søstrene på Katarinahjemmet og brødrene i St. Dominikus kloster i Oslo inviterer til pilegrimstur i St. Dominikus fotspor i forkant av Verdensungdomsdagene 2011! Pilegrimsturen er en alternativ rute til NUK’s pilegrimstur til VUD 2011 Les mer

(thetablet.co.uk) Our Rome correspondent joined the papal flight to Edinburgh as a member of the Vatican press corps, followed Pope Benedict throughout his journey, and rejoined him on the plane from Birmingham back to Rome. Here he assesses a journey that made many on both sides re-evaluateLes mer

(nrk.no) José Raúl Vera López (65 år), katolsk biskop i Saltillo, Mexico, tildeles Raftoprisen 2010 for sin kamp for menneskerettigheter og sosial rettferdighet.Les mer

(nytimes.com) I’ve noticed that New Yorkers, and I sometimes try to pass for one these days, tend to greet the word “summit” with an irritated roll of the eyes, a grunt, an impatient glance at the wristwatch. In Manhattan, a summit has nothing to do with crampons and ice picks, but refers instead...Les mer

(caritas.org/blog/) Caritas sits right now inside the UN facility in the GA conference Room, one of four Civil Society Organisations (CSO) invited to engage the global debate. Fr Ambroise Tine from Caritas Senegal sits at the table in between an Asian colleague and a Latin American. Les mer

(Dag og Tid) Jan Hustad problematiserer den sterke satsingen på få flest mulig til å ta høyere utdanningn som et argument for å styrke samfunnsøkonomien.Les mer

(unaidstoday.org) Ahead of the United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on 20-22 September 2010, UNAIDS today released data on progress towards MDG 6 and called for leveraging the AIDS response to support all MDGs.Les mer

(thetablet.co.uk) Atheists, clerics and cardinals have claimed in the run-up to the papal visit that Britain is a secular country. Not so, says the Prime Minister, who sees a clear role for the Church in society and for the Holy See on the global stage. Les mer

(blog.caritas.org) Tented camps dot the countryside around Nowshera. Their inhabitants are some of the 21 million people affected by the floods this August in Pakistan that have ravaged a vast swathe of the country.Les mer

(nytimes.com) A side benefit of a British education used to be learning the mnemonics helpful for sifting through events on this blustery island since 1066. One ditty lists all the kings and queens, ending with the catchy “Ned, George, Ned, George, at whose death came a second Elizabeth.” Les mer

(thetablet.co.uk) In a society like modern Britain, however, the Pope’s influence can rarely be direct. If Catholic teaching in favour of human dignity and the common good is ever to penetrate to the grass roots of British society, it will be largely through the agency of Catholic lay people and...Les mer

(nytimes.com) This weekend, a Jewish woman who lost her husband in the 9/11 attacks is planning to speak at a mosque in Boston. She will be trying to recruit members of the mosque to join her battle against poverty and illiteracy in Afghanistan. Les mer

(dailymail.co.uk) European Christians should have more children to stop the continent becoming 'Islamised', a senior Vatican official has suggested. Father Piero Gheddo said the low birth rate of indigenous Europeans combined with a huge wave of Muslim migrants with large families would 'sooner or...Les mer

(catholicnewsagency.com) Although the charismatic Christian church planning a Koran burning on Sept. 11 only has around 50 members, the spectre of the impact on Muslim relations led the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue to issue a statement today expressing its “great...Les mer

(Klassekampen) Venstresida mangler teoretiske redskaper for å forstå overgrep begått i religionenes og ideologienes navn, mener forfatter Thorvald Steen.Les mer