Vocations Today – Pray the World Hears
Every year on the fourth Sunday of Easter, Catholics worldwide are called to pray for vocations on Good Shepherd’s Sunday....
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The Call to be Political
The Church, the frequent refrain goes, should stick to its business of saving souls and stay out of politics. This...
A Disunited Front
As we approach Freedom Day, South Africans may well survey the calibre of our political leadership — and descend into...
Are You At The Cross?
During Holy Week, many Catholics will sing the moving African-American spiritual “Were You There When They Crucified My Lord”. And...
A Nation of Outrage
In the years after the fall of the Third Reich, some Germans would try and find some redeeming feature in...
Sainthood for Denis Hurley?
The first step on the road to the possible canonised sainthood of Archbishop Denis Hurley, one of the great sons...
This Life: We’re in it Together
Guest editorial by Michael Shackleton – This week we look at the call of Christians to put to death the...
Catastrophic Leadership on Abuse
The resignation of an abuse survivor from the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors is an indictment of the...
Lenten Joy and Pain
For Catholics, and some other Christians, it is part of life’s cultural tradition to make the sacrifice of giving up...
