Invest in teachers 

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI  October 5 is World Teachers’ Day. Its aim is “to mobilise support for teachers and to ensure that the needs of future generations will continue to be met by teachers”. The theme for 2014 is Invest in the future, invest in teachers.  If we are to invest […]

Stop ‘murder by legal sentence’ 

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI  “The death penalty is contrary to the meaning of  humanitas and to divine mercy, which should be the model for men’s justice. It implies cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment…As St Ambrose teaches, God did not want to punish Cain for the murder, as He wants the repentance […]