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Year-end Review 2002
The abortion fight
As we observe the feast of the massacre of the Holy Innocents, our minds turn to the deplorable rate of abortions in South Africa, and the glee of the government when it reports an increase in the rate of “terminations of pregnancy”. Read more…
Cover-ups at the top?
Catholics will have been dismayed to read news reports which suggest that the cover-up of sexual abuse by priests goes as high up as to the Holy Father himself. Read more…
Reuben’s star
A short story by Margaret Schewe
Reuben was a fine astronomer, and as usual he was gazing up into the night skies. Keeping him company on this evening, I allowed my thoughts to drift back to our wedding day seven happy but childless years earlier.
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Not just one Christmas
Which Christmas are we celebrating this year?
In our secularised society, Christmas has long ceased to be mainly the feast of the Nativity of our Lord. Modern society has adopted a multifarious approach to the event. Read more…
Lessons from a sad history
This week we are publishing a review of a book, provocatively titled A Moral Reckoning, by the US Jewish historian Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, who presents the Catholic Church as complicit in the Shoah (or Holocaust). Read more…
The Church and condoms
After Bishop Kevin Dowling last year called on the Church to reconsider its absolute ban on the use of condoms in the fight against Aids, the local bishops took an important step. Read more…
