June 2002

The bishop and the website

Readers of The Southern Cross who avail themselves of the weekend newspapers published by the Independent Newspapers group will have noted with surprise the revival of a...

Rights and duties

It is not unusual nowadays for disgruntled students, workers and other dissatisfied citizens to claim that their constitutional rights are being violated when they do not get...

The Church in our times

Opinions of some biblical researchers have recently been aired on television, according to which Jesus Christ was not born of a virgin, did no miracles and certainly...

Wiping the slate clean

Last week we reported that the US Church and the Vatican may be on collision course over how to deal with allegations of sex abuse by consecrated...

Salt and light

This week we report that 100 young people from South Africa and Botswana will form the official delegation of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference to the...