2002

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...

A papal abdication?

Ever since Pope John Paul began to show signs of what is commonly believed to be Parkinson’s disease, much speculation has focused on the prospect of a...

A Middle East peace?

In the annals of the on-going Middle East conflict, the recent occupation and siege of Bethlehem’s church of the Nativity will surely stand out as a defining...

Shaping the news

The Catholic Church is big news these days, even in South Africa–alas, for all the wrong reasons.

Nature’s way

Mention the idea of Natural Family Plann-ing (NFP) to acquaintances of a more secular worldview, and one is likely to be met with a derisive retort, possibly...

Carrying the can

Although the disgrace of some priests sexually abusing minors has itself not touched the Southern African Church at least publicly the local clergy is feeling the pain...

Youth takes charge

Secular Aids activism has evidently resigned itself to regarding the promotion of condoms as the only practical method of Aids prevention.

Training future priests

In his message for Vocations Sunday, Pope John Paul refers to the low rate of vocations in Europe and North America, saying that the shortage represents an...

No more cover-ups

Is The Southern Cross taking delight in what can only be described as a hurricane of sex scandals in the Catholic Church worldwide? Of course not.