Our Wounded Body Politic
A former Peru missionary argues Britain’s winter of 2022-23 reveals a society failing its poor, with a precariat, austerity and political dishonesty. He calls on biblical prophecy and Jubilee to demand justice.
A former Peru missionary argues Britain’s winter of 2022-23 reveals a society failing its poor, with a precariat, austerity and political dishonesty. He calls on biblical prophecy and Jubilee to demand justice.
Frank Regan reviews The Cry of the Earth and the Cry of the Poor by Kathleen Rushton.
Frank Regan writes on bodies and the Christian vision of a New Humanity: refugees, trafficked women, queer theology, ecological destruction, the Assumption and the Eucharist.
Frank Regan reviews the three volumes of Pope Francis’s Morning Homilies, translated by Dinah Livingstone, noting his informality, emphasis on mercy and the poor, and silence about women, LGBTQ and divorced Catholics.
Frank Regan assesses whether Pope Francis can reform the Catholic Church, tracing clericalism and centuries of ‘cultural lag’, and lists unresolved issues: remarriage, LGBTQ inclusion, women’s ministry and eucharistic hospitality.