Edmund Rice Justice Aotearoa

28/05/2026

https://www.ncronline.org/news/meet-basketball-loving-nuns-who-are-taking-nba-playoffs-storm

The NBA playoffs are not usually the place where one expects to find Catholic nuns turning into social media superstars. But that's exactly what happened after a group of Salesian Sisters from San Antonio were spotted courtside in Spurs jerseys.

27/05/2026

27/05/2026

https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-news/ai-encyclical-pope-leo-moves-churchs-needle-slavery-just-war

The church's delayed moral development on the issue of slavery constitutes "a wound in Christian memory, one from which we cannot consider ourselves detached," Leo XIV wrote in Magnifica Humanitas.

27/05/2026

https://www.wired.com/story/pope-leo-schooled-the-tech-bros-on-tolkien/

The Holy Father referenced “The Lord of the Rings” in his encyclical about AI—an expert (if unintentional) troll of tech billionaires who keep misinterpreting the series.

23/05/2026

There are fears Pacific workers may be the most vulnerable to abuse as Parliament considers modern slavery legislation.

23/05/2026

https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-voices/stephen-colbert-please-do-parish-coffee-and-doughnut-social-tour

"You have made us think about all sorts of things, including, but not in any kind of preaching way, how faith can fit into people's lives because it seemed to seamlessly connect in yours," writes NCR's Carol Zimmermann.

23/05/2026

https://www.ucanews.com/news/filipino-journalists-murder-raises-press-freedom-concerns/113435

Police are probing whether Nestor Micator was killed because of his broadcasting job or role as a community leader

20/05/2026

Indonesian police were first found to have killed five Papuans on the eve of Good Friday church services for Easter while two others were found seriously wounded before Indonesia's military later killed 12 more civilians in a West Papuan refugee camp, all throughout April.

Senior West Papuan figures have slammed the most recent Indonesian attacks on the occupied Indigenous territory of Western New Guinea.Inside the space of approximately 48 hours, a West Papuan independ...

18/05/2026

Holiness, these rebellious saints remind us, is not passivity. It is the steady, creative energy of divine compassion taking flesh in a world that resists it. From Rome’s arenas to N**i camps, from underground railways to modern city streets, the Spirit keeps whispering the same invitation: Listen deeply, love fiercely, and, when love demands it, break the law.

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