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A Church response to Aids
The broadcast on South African television of a BBC-produced documentary on the Catholic Church and condoms–more than six months after its original telecast in Britain–may well have inflamed public perceptions of the Church. Read more…
Church and politics: Let’s speak up!
I had always thought that religion and politics are separate in most modern nations, particularly in the United States. The Bush-Kerry election campaigns shows, however, that the sacred and the secular cannot be easily separated. Read more…
Philip Pullman & Christianity
THE DEVIL’S ACCOUNT: Philip Pullman & Christianity, by Hugh Rayment-Pickard. Darton, Longman & Todd London, 2004. 117pp.
Reviewed by Russell Pollitt SJ
Eucharist as a weapon?
In recent weeks, some readers have questioned whether Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, a Catholic, should continue to receive holy Communion, particularly at Masses that form part of public events. Read more…
Great Masses I remember
On a number of trips to Cape Town this past year, I have had the great pleasure of going to Sunday Mass at the parish of Ss Simon & Jude in Simon’s Town–not only pleasurable because the church itself is the epitome of what I believe church architecture should be, but also because of the wonderful recorded music that greets parishioners every weekend. Read more…
Social doctrine today
The Second Vatican Council taught in word and deed that the Catholic Church must always read and respond to “the signs of the times”. The new Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, the first such digest in the history of the Church, is an attempt to do just that. Read more…
Encyclopedia of Judaism & Christianity
AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY, by Dan & Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok. Darton, Longman & Todd, London. 2004.181pp.
Reviewed by Günther Simmermacher
Red card for the race card
South Africa’s past has been dominated by issues of race, and so will the future be. The social engineering of apartheid inevitably must be undone. This must involve a measure of racial differentiation. Read more…
