Herbert Mccabe News Today

Dominican Father Herbert McCabe never shrank from the church's big questions.

The Earth is in trouble. How can religious traditions like Christianity be bearers of wisdom and help lay out a roadmap for ecological care of the planet?

The vital imperative to tell and to accept the truth

For some years much of South African society has voiced or has appeared to be consumed by hopelessness and demoralisation. There is a sense that what was gained in achieving democracy in 1990-1994 has been gutted by corruption, State Capture, destruction of state enterprises and other key institutions and infrastructure. A range of other ills spread over almost all institutions impact, albeit unevenly, seriously on all sections of society. Demoralisation extends beyond looking at what no longer ...

In many ways that sense of hopelessness, the sense that things will not get better and will get worse, that sense of despair is borne out by statistics, whether in the fate of the falling rand, for the economy as a whole, healthcare, crime, education and collapse of state institutions, and audi...

Let us therefore abandon the cynicism that would force us to choose between learning for its own sake and learning for success.

More than offering prescriptions, suggestions — good or bad — about how we should live broaden our worldview and put us in touch with our desires.

Iain McGilchrist and the rediscovery of wonder

In his new book about moral philosophy, Michael Schur, reduces ethics to an individual skillset, thereby failing to properly reckon with the significance of collective human action and its ability to transform society.

Tell me if this sounds familiar: You’re sitting in your car waiting for the police officer to come back with your license and registration. Whether or not