Edmund Rice International

Edmund Rice International participated in the forum for Catholic-inspired Non-Government Organizations working with the UN which was held in Rome last month.

I have followed with some interest the furor in the US surrounding the invitation to President Obama to speak next month at Notre Dame University, one of the leading Catholic educational institutions in the United States. The invitation seems to have divided Catholics with on the one hand some, including more than a few bishops, […]

Zambia remains one of the better governed countries in Africa. At least its institutions of governance work by and large. However, corruption remains an issue despite some gains. Zambia’s courts have handed down some tough rulings against corrupt officials from previous administrations. This has been interpreted by some as a positive indication of a commitment […]

You may remember the film Liaisons Dangereuses. Well, it seems that another equally dangerous territory is that of papal and episcopal excommunications. Relationships, breakups, liaisons, are by definition and experience fraught with pain, danger, angst and stormy passages. In recent weeks we’ve seen the furore created by the papal lifting of the Lefebvrite excommunications, imposed […]

It is difficult not to view the recent excommunication of the nine-year old girl who had become involuntarily pregnant because of rape as a clear issue of the rights of the child. She was violated, a victim of male violence and further subjected to defamation on the part of the Church authorities in Recife, Brazil. […]

Bishop Gumbleton, a long-time promoter of peace and justice, writes a regular blog on the National Catholic Reporter website. Last Sunday he preached a homily on the parable from Matthew’s Gospel about the landowner who appears to reward his servants unfairly by giving equal amounts to all, irrespective of length of service. Not a good […]

Interesting report from “Zenit” GENEVA, JUNE 6, 2008 (Zenit.org).- A draft protocol being considered by the U.N. Human Rights Council will effectively “fill a gap” in the international human rights system, says the Holy See’s permanent observer at the U.N. offices in Geneva Archbishop Silvano Tomasi said this Wednesday to a working group of the […]