August 2002

Reality on TV

The glut of reality TV shows, internationally and locally, spells an unwelcome shift in viewer discernment.

Priests on the pedestal

Does the laity expect too much from its priests? Conversely, do some priests expect too little from lay people?

Debate in the Church

The letters columns of many Catholic publications–even those that are less lively than The Southern Cross’–seem to affirm the notion that consensus on many issues within the...

The Church’s backwater

Catholics in Southern Africa may be forgiven if they sometimes feel marginalised in the big family of God that is the global Church. It is true that...