Year-end Review 2002
JANUARY Archbishop Denis Hurley, 86, retires for good from active ministry. Since retiring as archbishop of Durban, he had served...
2002
The abortion fight
As we observe the feast of the massacre of the Holy Innocents, our minds turn to the deplorable rate of...
Cover-ups at the top?
Catholics will have been dismayed to read news reports which suggest that the cover-up of sexual abuse by priests goes...
Not just one Christmas
Which Christmas are we celebrating this year? In our secularised society, Christmas has long ceased to be mainly the feast...
Lessons from a sad history
This week we are publishing a review of a book, provocatively titled A Moral Reckoning, by the US Jewish historian...
The Church and condoms
After Bishop Kevin Dowling last year called on the Church to reconsider its absolute ban on the use of condoms...
Odds favour criminals
This month has seen the death of the notorious British child killer Myra Hindley, the “Moors murderer” who spent the...
Time to speak out
Two weeks ago we identified, not for the first time, Zimbabwe’s Muga-be regime as displaying traits of fascism.
How the government fails
It is noteworthy that the recent series of bomb blasts by suspected right-wingers in Soweto and Bronkhorst-spruit should roughly coincide...
