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Inquisition and the pope
The reputation of the Catholic Church has been stained by grievous episodes in its history. One of these was the Inquisition, a time when perceived dissent from Church teaching and discipline gave cause for torture and even death. Read more…
Marketing catechism
Our bishops are ever more aware that the biggest challenge facing the Church today is the education of the laity–particularly young people, who simply do not understand what the Catholic Church is all about.
One would hope that such education would not be a one-way street. Religious organisations need to bear in mind that people nowadays live at a sometimes hectic pace, with their attention increasingly distracted by movies, sport, an all-invasive Internet, and the marketing process, with its basic fundamental of motivating consumers in a certain direction. Read more…
Catholic literacy
Walk into any South African shopping mall of a certain size, and you are likely to find a classy media centre aimed at Christians of an evangelical bent. These shops stock a wide variety of books and CDs, and attract good numbers of patrons, many of them young people. Read more…
The abortion battle
In South Africa, the odds are stacked against the unborn. The courts allow teenagers to procure abortions without parental consent; the government’s intention to widen access to abortion as a means of birth control is becoming increasingly evident; the health ministry introduces increasing figures in abortion rates as a national accomplishment, not as the accumulation of personal tragedies that it is; and much of the secular press makes no secret of its bias towards the pro-abortion cause. Read more…
Let all hear Radio Veritas
South Africa’s Catholic Church received a proverbial kick in the teeth when the Independent Communications Authority (ICASA) refused permission for Radio Veritas broadcasts to Durban and Cape Town. Read more…
My child, your child, our child
Our dynamic youth day, June 16, has been declared as the International Day of the African Child by the United Nations–a day that has been celebrated as such every year since 1991 by the Organisation of African Unity. Read more…
Why didn’t they listen?
The Catholic Church has from the outset been opposed to the invasion of Iraq, warning the United States, Britain and their allies of the folly of an elective war and the many problems its aftermath would produce. Read more…
