Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

‘We all weep for these victims’: Nigerian cardinal responds after gunmen kill 200 people

Nigerian Cardinal John Onaiyekan speaks at the International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 9, 2021. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Rome Newsroom, Jan 12, 2022 / 12:00 pm (CNA). After gangs of gunmen killed at least 200 people in Nigeria’s Zamfara State last week, Cardinal John Onaiyekan said that things must change. The Nigerian cardinal explained […]

Who invented the individual?

A common misconception holds that early “modernity” invented the “individual”: the idea that everyone is a someone with a unique identity independent of family, tribe, racial group, or nation. And from that idea of individuality, […]