Year-end Review 2002
JANUARY Archbishop Denis Hurley, 86, retires for good from active ministry. Since retiring as archbishop of Durban, he had served Emmanuel cathedral parish as its pastor. At...
2002
The abortion fight
As we observe the feast of the massacre of the Holy Innocents, our minds turn to the deplorable rate of abortions in South Africa, and the glee...
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 as high up as to the Holy...
Not just one Christmas
Which Christmas are we celebrating this year? In our secularised society, Christmas has long ceased to be mainly the feast of the Nativity of our Lord. Modern...
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 Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, who presents the Catholic...
The Church and condoms
After Bishop Kevin Dowling last year called on the Church to reconsider its absolute ban on the use of condoms in the fight against Aids, the local...
Odds favour criminals
This month has seen the death of the notorious British child killer Myra Hindley, the “Moors murderer” who spent the remaining 36 years of her life behind...
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 with reports of the deplorable racially charged...
Don’t blame the Church
This week we quote Pope John Paul as saying that the Church is always holy, despite the failings and scandals in the Church, today and through the...
