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Year-end Review 2003
The Iraq malaise
Even after the capture of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, the Holy See continues to point out that the invasion of Iraq earlier this year was illegal and immoral. Read more…
2004: Year of Hope
As we reflect on the year 2003, and look towards 2004, we focus our hopes and prayers on many areas where the new year may bring brighter developments. Read more…
God’s special gift to us
By Archbishop Denis Hurley OMI
About 15 billion years ago a cosmic blast occurred that we have come to call the “Big Bang”. Our universe was on its way. It was unrecognisable — just a chaotic cauldron of invisible particles crashing and cavorting at a temperature of about a million degrees centigrade.
But God was in it, guiding it and governing it. It was the first creative expression of his divine presence that we know.
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Scrooge still haunts us
By Owen Williams
The visible aspects of the English-speaking Christmas owe much to Charles Dickens (1812-1870), particularly of course to his great novel A Christmas Carol, which haunts Christmas as we know it with all the vividness and persistence of the ghosts in the book.
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The Christmas visitor
A short story by Malcolm Theunissen
It was a hot and humid afternoon in December 1965 when a balding stranger appeared at the door of the small mission station in the then Eastern Transvaal. It was an equally hot and humid Sr Mary Margaret who answered the door.
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Christmas in orphanages
Most children experience Christmas joy in the fold of a loving family. But not all
children have families. MICHAIL RASSOOL looks at how Christmas is celebrated in Catholic orphanages and homes for children with Aids. Read more…
The Christmas Angel
A short story by Brian Reynolds
Where I grew up it always rained on the 16th of December, which older South Africans will remember was Dingaan’s Day — to Afrikaners the Day of the Vow, or the Day of the Covenant. I remember that every year there would be a family discussion round the dinner table as to whether or not there was some kind of symbolism attached to this.
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God’s special gift to us
Guest editorial by Archbishop emeritus Denis E Hurley OMI
About 15 billion years ago a cosmic blast occurred that we have come to call the “Big Bang”. Our universe was on its way. Read more…
Catholic Anger will remain
The public outrage that greeted revelations of the rugby training methods employed in the run-up to last month’s world cup is entirely justified. Read more…
