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Salvation: God’s open-door policy
Playing on limited release in South African cinemas lately was a contentious film titled Downfall, which charted the final two weeks of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. Read more…
Zim: No more excuses
Archbishop Pius Ncube, the valiant fighter for human rights from Bulawayo, is rightly delighted about the condemnation of Zimbabwe’s human rights record by the African Union’s Commission on Human and People’s Rights. Read more…
Cutting out blasphemy
The call by Cardinal Wilfrid Napier to campaign against the blasphemous use of Our Lord’s name is timely. Read more…
Gay marriages: what now?
Last month’s High Court ruling compelling the government to draft legislation within a year which will sanction same-sex marriages should not have taken South Africans by surprise. Read more…
Who should give the Last Rites?
At 1:45 a.m. my mother became seriously ill and the hospital doctor said she was dying and needed a priest. We phoned our parish priest who refused to come. In desperation we phoned our former parish priest who came, although he said it was his policy not to perform sacraments in other parishes. May only priests anoint the sick? May a priest refuse to give the last rites? May he refuse to do a funeral? Must he be paid in advance? Read more…
