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Same-sex unions will need pastoral solutions
The Catholic hierarchy of Southern Africa has now made its submission to parliament’s portfolio committee on home affairs on the question of same-sex unions, stating the Church’s opposition to its legalisation on several grounds, as we report this week. Read more…
Catholics and the vote
It is voting time in the United States. Every two years Americans elect members of the House of Representatives to two-year terms and about one-third of their senators, who serve six-year terms. Read more…
New mission frontiers
This week the Catholic Church around the world observes World Mission Sunday. It is a day when we are called to concentrate our prayers on the Church’s missionary efforts especially, and an opportunity for us to discern the priorities, objectives and means of our collective evangelising efforts. Read more…
Gaia
Reviewed by Elizabeth Ellis
Saving the earth, one song at a time, is the driving force behind the well-meaning Gaia compilation. Read more…
Betrayal of Democracy
In his 1991 encyclical Centesimus annus, Pope John Paul II wrote that the Catholic Church “values the democratic system inasmuch as it ensures the participation of citizens in making political choices, guarantees to the governed the possibility both of electing and holding accountable those who govern them, and of replacing them through peaceful means when appropriate.” Read more…
Clearing a pope’s name
Can Pope Pius XII still be rehabilitated from the calumny of being dubbed “Hitler’s pope”? Newly released documents from the Vatican Secret Archives suggest that the case for Pius XII as no friend of the Nazis is now beyond doubt. Read more…
An unwelcome welcome
Reports of guests in our country being attacked, often lethally, by South Africans should be a cause for serious alarm. It is not acceptable that the state should find itself in near-silence on the issue, or being so under-resourced as to fail in ensuring that justice be done. Read more…
