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1 week ago | 
thetablet.co.uk | Ellen Teague
Pope Leo appealed for authorities in Israel and Iran to act with “responsibility and reason” after civilians in both countries were forced to shelter from airstrikes. He called on the two nations to pursue dialogue and work towards a safer world “free from the nuclear threat”, insisting that “no one should ever threaten another’s existence”.
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1 week ago | 
thetablet.co.uk | Michael Sean Winters |Ellen Teague
President Donald Trump’s attacks on undocumented immigrants brought protesters into the streets of Los Angeles and drove further protests already planned nationwide on his birthday. Events across the country on 14 June were dominated by the political context, including the gathering in Chicago of thousands of Catholics in Rate Field stadium, home of the city’s White Sox baseball team, to celebrate the election of Pope Leo XIV.
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2 weeks ago | 
thetablet.co.uk | Ruth Gledhill |Ellen Teague |Sarah Mac Donald
The exhibition was created by photographer Tom Quibell, telling stories of how lives are being changed through the association with Citizens UK. Linking the principles of community organising and Catholic Social Teaching, the exhibition showcases ordinary people. Parish priest Chris Hughes said it portrays the strong multi-cultural dimension of the parish.
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2 weeks ago | 
thetablet.co.uk | Ellen Teague
Environmental issues are often “an extra curricular rather than a central concern” in the Church, papal biographer and commentator Austen Ivereigh has warned.
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2 weeks ago | 
thetablet.co.uk | Ellen Teague
An ecumenical group of Christians in Jerusalem issued an “SOS” for Gaza, appealing for renewed international efforts to intervene. “We are sounding the alarm about the recent unprecedented escalation in the Israeli war on Gaza,” said the statement for “A Jerusalem Voice for Justice”. Its signatories included the former Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Michel Sabbah, the Greek Orthodox Bishop Attallah Hanna, the former Lutheran Bishop of the Holy Land Munib Younan.
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3 weeks ago | 
thetablet.co.uk | Ellen Teague
Conditions in Gaza have reached “catastrophic levels”, according the regional director of a papal agency operating in the region. Joseph Hazboun of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA), the Pontifical Mission in Palestine and Israel, said last week that nearly two million people, about 90 per cent of Gaza’s population, were “displaced and living in overcrowded, unsafe conditions”.
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1 month ago | 
thetablet.co.uk | Ruth Gledhill |Sarah Mac Donald |Ellen Teague
UK companies are outperforming global peers when it comes to tackling forced labour in their supply chains, as the UK marks 10 years since the landmark Modern Slavery Act, according to a new benchmark from investment manager CCLA. The aim of the benchmark, in which the 100 largest global companies are assessed, is to empower faith investors and institutions with a renewed attention to banish modern slavery. Global firms scored an average of 30/62, compared to 36/62 for UK companies.
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1 month ago | 
thetablet.co.uk | Ellen Teague
Pope Leo XIV marked the tenth anniversary of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ on Sunday, describing it as “extraordinarily popular, inspiring countless initiatives and teaching everyone to listen to the twofold cry of the earth and of the poor”. Addressing pilgrims in St Peter’s Square from the window of the Apostolic Palace after the Regina Coeli, he went on to endorse “the Laudato Si’ Movement and all those who carry this commitment forward”.
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1 month ago | 
thetablet.co.uk | Ruth Gledhill |Ellen Teague |Sarah Mac Donald
Fr Dominic Robinson SJ, parish priest at Farm Street Jesuit Church in London, told a panel on exploring the moral and spiritual challenges of artificial intelligence, “We should not be fearful of AI.” First speaker at the Farm Street event, organised in collaboration with the Catholic Union, was Jen Copestake, a correspondent with CGTN Europe and a parishioner at Farm Street, who pointed to the growing use of AI and robotics in areas such as healthcare.
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1 month ago | 
thetablet.co.uk | Ellen Teague
The leader of the Anglican Church in Southern Africa issued an urgent appeal to the US to save two programmes crucial for economic development and healthcare across the African continent.
