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...
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published December 31, 2002 · Last modified September 12, 2017
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
More