Category: Religion & Ethics

Pope Benedict XVI is buried now alongside many other Popes at St Peter’s Cathedral. Father John Kennedy, who worked for and deeply respected the late Holy Father, talks to Correspondent.World. Our previous visit to the centre of the Vatican had a very different theme.

8 January 2023 By Paul Martin

We also have had an exclusive interview, at his St Peter’s Square Vatican headquarters, with Monsignor John Kennedy. It took place after the funeral of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who had become Pope Benedict XVI while Father Kennedy was working for him at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican. He has […]

Hitler’s comrade-in-arms still has a Nazi helmet on his grave. Will it be removed?

6 December 2022 By Paul Martin

The helmet on Hermann Kriebel’s grave (Dirk Walter) By Paul Martin. A small German town is refusing to remove a steel helmet that remains on top of a Nazi general’s grave. Hermann Kriebel headed the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party , whose ‘Storm Detachment’ launched vicious attacks on Jews in Nazi Germany and Austria in 1938.   Kriebel […]

Sri Lanka’s Cardinal offers legal aid to foreign families. Can they hold the deposed ruling family accountable for the mass murders of Easter 2019?

17 July 2022 By Paul Martin

Exclusive.   David Linsey, whose younger brother and sister were killed in a suicide bombing in a hotel in Sri Lanka three years ago, has supported calls for an urgent investigation into who lay behind the terrorist attacks. He believes the collapse of the Rajapaksa family’s decades-long grip on power may make a proper investigation easier. “I […]

How the Americans view Archbishop Tutu.

18 February 2022 By Paul Martin

The Life and Legacy of Archbishop Desmond Tutu PRESS STATEMENT ANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF STATE I join President Biden and the First Lady in mourning the loss of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, an extraordinary leader who joyously devoted his life to celebrating and advancing human dignity, justice, and morality.  He was unassuming but no less […]

Motor-bike rider, sports fanatic, life-saver, frustrated father, Nobel Peace Prize-winner. Dead at 90, but larger than life, says Archbishop Tutu’s only son.

2 February 2022 By Paul Martin

Exclusive: By Paul Martin in Cape Town. Trevor Tutu, the only son of anti-apartheid legend Archbishop Desmond Tutu, has spoken of his dad’s amazing life – including how the future world icon took his son to an England World Cup match on the back of a scooter! In an emotional wide-ranging interview Trevor Tutu spoke […]

My father Desmond Tutu, our family’s strengths and frailties, and, for a country that’s been attacked by human termites, why I still see glimmers of hope.

31 December 2021 By Paul Martin

By Trevor Tutu, the only son and oldest of the four children of Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Leah Tutu., who died in Cape Town aged 90. As told to Paul Martin. “I want people to see my father as a human being with human frailties — not just as a saint-like figure.  “He could be […]

Exclusive: Archbishop Tutu’s son on his own, and his father’s, and his family’s strengths and failings… and what his father has taught him about life, cricket, and forgiveness.

31 December 2021 By Paul Martin

By Paul Martin.  Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s only son has revealed how the most respected and admired clergyman in South African history had to battle with rifts in his own family — and sometimes with his own explosive temper. “I want people to see my dad as a human being with human frailties — not just […]

Conversion: for would-be asylum-seekers in Europe, is it just a case of pray-to-stay?

17 November 2021 By Paul Martin

Converting to Christianity is a long-established technique to avoid being sent back to any Muslim country. That’s because there are clear statements in Islam’s Hadith, authentic quotes attributed to Mohammad) that converting out of Islam is punishable by death. Different Muslim countries enforce this to different degrees, but Christians in many parts of the Middle […]

‘Woke’ demands and ‘racist’ comments at the Cricket World Cup are producing explosive controversy for South Africa, Pakistan and India.

27 October 2021 By Paul Martin

It was a move that sent shockwaves through the sporting world. South Africa’s best batsman and wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock pulled out of a crucial match in the short-form cricket series, the World Cup T20, rather than obey an order, made hours before by the body that runs cricket in his home country, to take […]

The row over the media’s responsibilities continues. UK editors reject pleas to outlaw discrimination against ethnic and religious groups, says Press Gazette.

9 December 2020 By Paul Martin

Can the British media regulate itself, or should it be put under greater control? Here’s the Press Gazette’s take. Top editors have rejected calls to adopt a provision in the Editors’ Code of Practice banning discrimination against groups such as Muslims, Jews and migrant communities in the press. The Editors’ Code Committee (made up of […]

EXCLUSIVE: Can God be blamed for the deaths of hundreds of Christians in Sri Lanka one year ago? Or for the mass murders of 9-11? Or for the Corona Virus death toll? A top Catholic cardinal gives us his interpretation.

20 April 2020 By Paul Martin

By Paul Martin. God should not be made a “scapegoat” for the mass killings or suffering that occur in this world, says a leading Roman Catholic Cardinal. We should instead look to the failings of humans as the cause: especially those he claims are creating wars and conflict to fuel the purchase of weapons and […]