November 2009

AIDS: No easy answers

President Jacob Zuma this month acknowledged that South Africa is “not yet winning” the fight against HIV/Aids, pointing out that the country’s mortality rates may soon overtake...

A climate for change

The world’s leaders must show courage as they prepare for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen from December 7-18. Climate change is a question of...

The next time you see Paris…

If you stand barefoot on top of the Eifel Tower in Paris with the river Seine at your back and then look straight down between your big...

Reflections aim to explain Catholic faith

THE WHISPERING CALL FROM WITHIN: Reflections on the Riches of the Catholic Tradition of Prayer, by Patrick Quinton Gonsalves. Melrose Books, England. 2009. 107pp Reviewed by Michail...

Media frustration

In an interview with the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano in late October, Cardinal Wilfrid Napier of Durban was asked whether the secular media had covered the Second...

Pius XII, still open questions

Your October that Pope Pius XII be named “Righteous Among the Nations” refers. Gary Krupp, who heads an American Jewish organisation, is said to be leading such...

Blessed are the wealthy?

American movie director, satirist and Catholic, Michael Moore, wrote an e-mail to his friends and the hundreds of thousands of subscribers to his website, just before he...