November 2003

Aids will define our future

It must be infuriating for those Catholics working in the field of HIV/Aids that in the secular arena the Church’s response is often reduced to its doctrines...

Who is a dissident?

Shortly before Cardinal Keith O’Brien, archbishop of Edinburgh, was elevated to the College of Cardinals in October, he made a public profession of faith (as is required...

Confronting SA’s past

Pope John Paul is an astute observer of the human condition when he says that true reconciliation is impossible without wrongs first being acknowledged by their perpetrators.

A beacon of justice

It is encouraging that the fearless witness of Archbishop Pius Ncube, a beacon of social justice in Zimbabwe, is being internationally recognised, as we report this week.