Today, 14 October 2018, will go down in history as the day that Pope Francis recognised seven new saints: Pope Paul VI, Archbishop Oscar Romero, Francesco Spinelli, Vincenzo Romano, Maria Caterina Kasper, Nazaria Ignazia of Saint Teresa of Jesus, and Nunzio Su... More »
Steve Biko was an anti-apartheid activist brutally murdered while in police custody in September forty-one years ago. Few would know that he also held firm views on the Church's role in society, as an advocate for the formation of conscience and the strug... More »
“There is no state that is captured”, this was the much-reported remark of Jacob Zuma as he addressed university students at Walter Sisulu University in the Eastern Cape earlier this week. Anthony Egan, moral theologian, ethicist and Jesuit priest looks at the... More »
Jesuit priest, moral theologian and ethicist, Anthony Egan assesses the public debate taking place around Land Expropriation from a moral and ethical standpoint and in the light of principles enshrined within Catholic Social Thought. He warns against doing wha... More »
Jesuit priest-academic and ethicist, Anthony Egan, recently returned from Bosnia-Herzegovina where he attended The Third International Conference of Catholic Theological Ethics in a World Church. As he reports, the conference offered theologians the world over... More »
In this second part, of a two-part exclusive series, Fr Anthony Egan, a Jesuit moral theologian and ethicist at The Jesuit Institute South Africa, does a socio-historical reading of one of the most contentious of the Church's documents in the modern perio... More »
Today, 50 years ago, the encyclical Humanae Vitae was released. In a two-part exclusive series, Fr Anthony Egan, a Jesuit moral theologian and ethicist at The Jesuit Institute South Africa, makes a socio-historical reading of one of the most contentious of the... More »
Cardinal Raymond Burke’s remarks at a recent conference in Rome, Anthony Egan says, open up the ongoing tensions in the Church over teaching authority, the primacy of the papacy and ultimately our understanding of truth. Burke made headlines when he claimed th... More »
World-renowned physicist, Stephen Hawking, died at the age of 76 after a long struggle with a motor neurone disease on 14 March 2018. Anthony Egan takes a look at his life and the significance of his work, suggesting that there is a lot that Christian can lear... More »
In this final part of a three-part series (read parts one and two), Anthony Egan SJ concludes his examination of the first five years of Pope Francis’ pontificate. In this third part, he describes the opposition to Pope Francis’ pontificate. Whether from liber... More »
In this second part of a three-part series (read part one here), Anthony Egan SJ continues to look at the first five years of Pope Francis' pontificate. Pope Francis has tried to reform the Church: Whether financial reform or canonical and liturgical refo... More »
In this first part of a three-part series, Anthony Egan SJ looks at the first five years of Pope Francis’ pontificate. He recalls the events of 13 March 2013 and looks at how Pope Francis came to be elected. He considers why it was that the cardinals elected a... More »
