A Church response to Aids
The broadcast on South African television of a BBC-produced documentary on the Catholic Church and condoms–more than six months after its original telecast in Britain–may well have...
November 2004
Church and Politics: Let’s Speak Up!
I had always thought that religion and politics are separate in most modern nations, particularly in the United States. The Bush-Kerry election campaigns shows, however, that the...
Philip Pullman & Christianity
THE DEVIL’S ACCOUNT: Philip Pullman & Christianity, by Hugh Rayment-Pickard. Darton, Longman & Todd London, 2004. 117pp. Reviewed by Russell Pollitt SJ In this book, Hugh Rayment-Pickard...
Eucharist as a Weapon?
In recent weeks, some readers have questioned whether Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, a Catholic, should continue to receive holy Communion, particularly at Masses that form part of...
Great Masses I remember
On a number of trips to Cape Town this past year, I have had the great pleasure of going to Sunday Mass at the parish of Ss...
Social doctrine today
The Second Vatican Council taught in word and deed that the Catholic Church must always read and respond to “the signs of the times”. The new Compendium...
Encyclopedia of Judaism & Christianity
AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY, by Dan & Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok. Darton, Longman & Todd, London. 2004.181pp. Reviewed by Günther Simmermacher
Red card for the race card
South Africa’s past has been dominated by issues of race, and so will the future be. The social engineering of apartheid inevitably must be undone. This must...
