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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Editorials 2017 Vocations
Editorials 2017 Politics
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
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Editorials 2017 Politics
A Disunited Front
As we approach Freedom Day, South Africans may well survey the calibre of our political leadership — and descend into
Easter Editorials 2017
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
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Editorials 2017
A Nation of Outrage
In the years after the fall of the Third Reich, some Germans would try and find some redeeming feature in
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Editorials 2017 Saints
Sainthood for Denis Hurley?
The first step on the road to the possible canonised sainthood of Archbishop Denis Hurley, one of the great sons
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Christian Living Church Easter Lent
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
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Abuse Church Editorials 2017
Catastrophic Leadership on Abuse
The resignation of an abuse survivor from the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors is an indictment of the
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Easter Editorials Editorials 2014 Lent
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
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