I don't think anyone would accuse Malala Yousafzai of being a "gradualist." Nor would Kailash Satyarthi embrace that description. Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who became an advocate for children's ...

I’ve stayed away from the Synod news. I’ll read the documents in due time, but I have no journalistic interests to hasten me. Two small impressions have occurred to me, which I offer below in limited ...

The so-called “midterm” report of the Synod is out. Please remember, it is only a rough draft and the final report may in fact look very different. Frankly, I am not sure why we are even being ...

It is instructive, and a little depressing, to watch Catholic social media come alive with reactions to the synod’s relatio text, which — let’s remember — is going to be revised and clarified in ...

Promises-Promises. Uncharted waters on the international scene - negative interest rates are not in the text books. An engineered equity market. Behind the curve - Following instead of leading.

ROME — All of a sudden at the 2014 Synod of Bishops on the family, “gradualism” as a concept in both Catholic moral theology and pastoral practice, which not so long ago seemed on the verge of being ...

As a political contributor on major Nigerian issues, for some time I’d been in a hibernation – not triggered or inspired to write or comment on anything significantly. I’d rather I traced such ...

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