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The bishop and the website
Readers of The Southern Cross who avail themselves of the weekend newspapers published by the Independent Newspapers group will have noted with surprise the revival of a story that ran in other publications two years ago. Read more…
Rights and duties
It is not unusual nowadays for disgruntled students, workers and other dissatisfied citizens to claim that their constitutional rights are being violated when they do not get their own way.We have witnessed the destruction of property and facilities in secondary and tertiary colleges by students whose demands have been refused for free education or for a particular academic to be fired. Read more…
The Church in our times
Nothing that is genuinely human fails to raise an echo in the hearts of Christians. Read more…
The Church in our times
Opinions of some biblical researchers have recently been aired on television, according to which Jesus Christ was not born of a virgin, did no miracles and certainly did not rise again from death. Read more…
Wiping the slate clean
Last week we reported that the US Church and the Vatican may be on collision course over how to deal with allegations of sex abuse by consecrated Church personnel. Read more…
Salt and light
This week we report that 100 young people from South Africa and Botswana will form the official delegation of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference to the World Youth Day in Toronto. Many others will travel to Toronto privately or as part of parish youth groups. Read more…
