A man for all seasons
It is a mark of the pervasive nature of Pope John Paul II’s pontificate that the nature of his successor should have attracted unprecedented media interest.
April 2005
A disposable life
The death by starvation of Terri Schiavo in a Florida hospital on March 31 is an indictment of a society which has rescinded its obligation to treat...
News from home made me think
It is always good to hear news from home, especially from the many readers of The Southern Cross. The departments and committees of the Southern African Catholic...
Da Vinci Code: A liberty with facts?
The book The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown has become a cultural phenomenon that may yet come to help define the present decade.
Lesson in comeback of Christian literature
The Harry Potter genre of literature that has been topping the bestseller lists all over the world for a number of years now has been ousted from...
Hurley remembers Vatican II
VATICAN II: Keeping The Dream Alive, by Denis Hurley OMI. Cluster Publications, Pietermaritzburg. 2004. 300pp. By Gunther Simmermacher Some years ago, this reviewer wrote a series on...
