The reality is that the second national security law has severed connections between people in Hong Kong and the outside world.
Read more >>The Crisis of Honesty in Hong Kong’s Governance – and why we must value our democracy
Category: Social Action
Dignitas Infinita – a summary
On 8th of April, the Solemnity of the Annunciation, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith published a declaration on human dignity, Dignitas Infinita (Infinite Dignity). This is a summary of that document.
Read more >>The people of Hong Kong need prayer and solidarity
As the world’s attention is on the many other crises and conflicts, we must not forget the need to stand in solidarity with and pray for the people of Hong Kong.
Read more >>The Relational Church: Our Calling in Dark Times
Jenny Sinclair is Founder and Director of Together for the Common Good. This is an edited version of her talk, ‘The Relational Church: Our Calling in Dark Times’ given at Hinsley Hall, Leeds, on 1 December 2023. Jenny was guest speaker for the Northern Diaconate Formation Partnership’s training weekend. This summary was first published on Independent Catholic News.
Read more >>Property, prudence and rent controls
According to the Catechism: “Prudence is the virtue that disposes practical reason to discern our true good in every circumstance and to choose the right means of achieving it” (paragraph 1806). Some would argue that it is the pre-eminent virtue necessary in those areas of public policy that pertain to economic issues.
Read more >>The Season of Creation – (Faith) responses to (rapid) climate change
There are clear signs e.g. here, here and here that rapid climate change is no longer a possibility that can be dismissed. Indeed, if the analogy of a boiling kettle being a tipping point that is preceded by fizzing as an indicator that the water is about to boil is relevant, current indications might mean that rapid and even runaway climate change is upon us.
Read more >>There are many future saints in prison
‘We incarcerate more people than any other country in Europe. Far too many people in our prison system are there as a result of mental illness. And every year, for far too many people, prison is a death sentence, as a consequence of suicide or violence.’ This is how Pact’s CEO Andy Keen-Downs opened our 10th Sir Harold Hood Memorial Lecture event last week.
Read more >>Politics as life-long engagement
I remember the scene clearly: it was just after midnight and the house lights were switched on in the auditorium of the Teatro Argentina in Rome. Moving from stage lighting to the lighting of the whole house was meant to affirm the role of the audience in the dawning of a democratic process in Eumenides, the third play in Aeschylus’ The Oresteia cycle, as a vote is cast on Orestes’ charge. Is he guilty or innocent? Athena, then, declares the theatre to be a court crowded with people. Sadly, while the lights revealed the glories of the theatre’s internal box features, it also revealed how the seats had emptied during the performance. As the show ran so late, many of the spectators had to leave early to catch public transport.
Read more >>BBC Radio 4 Beyond Belief – Grief
St. Mary’s University hosts the Centre for the Art of Dying Well, directed by Maggie Doherty: artofdyingwell.org Maggie recently appeared on the Radio 4 programme, Beyond Belief.
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Civil Society under pressure[1]
“the right of association is a natural right of the human being, which therefore precedes his or her incorporation into political society…” Centesimus annus, 7, emphasising Rerum novarum
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