The great transition
Twenty years ago on February 2, President FW de Klerk formally pronounced the death of the apartheid system with his […]
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Editorials Editorials 2010
Perspectives
Don’t blame advertising for your kids
All over the world, advertising stands accused of turning children into moneygrubbing, materialistic little monsters. Scores of pressure groups, do-gooders
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Perspectives
Kicking up dust, wrestling with myself
In the dying days of 2009, I ventured to make a few resolutions for the New Year. Isn’t the birthday
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Your Letters
St Christopher is alive and well
From Fr Johan Strydom, Plettenberg Bay: They say that St Christopher is no more. As the parish priest of St Christopher parish
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Editorials Editorials 2010
Church in the margins
Archbishop Vincent Nichols Of Westminster is right when he compares the dogmatic stridency of some secularists with that of “the
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Other Writers Perspectives
The sisterhood of the Mother of God
By Colleen Constable On January 1 we observed the feast of Mary, Mother of God. In his homily the priest
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Church
“Reform of the Reform”
The National Catholic Reporter online reported (7 January 2010) that Msgr Guido Marini, the chief papal liturgist, has called for
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Other Writers Perspectives
Something funny happened on the way to the synod
By Cardinal Wilfrid Napier OFM Something funny happened to me on the way to the Forum. These words, borrowed from
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Perspectives
Let’s play buzzword bingo
As is usual round about this time, a fortnight into the new year, I force myself to stop wondering why
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