Year of the Sister?

by Chris Chatteris SJ · October 16, 2009

Shortly after the watershed democratic election of 1994 I was involved in the organisation of the annual meeting of the Conference of Major Religious Superiors of Southern Africa. To help us reflect on the recent, bitter past, we had the good fortune to have emeritus Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Desmond Tutu.

Time has erased much of what he said to the assembly, but the matter and manner of Tutu’s preamble remain crisply clear in my mind’s eye and ear.

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