Attacks on Priests
South African Catholics were shocked this month to learn of the brutal attack on a Cape Town priest in his...
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State-of-the-Nation: A Test of Leadership
When Jacob Zuma takes to the parliamentary podium to address South Africa in his annual State-of-the-Nation address on February 11,...
Stop the Scheming
The Catholic Church is not immune to internal conflict and division, to cliques, to scheming and backstabbing. Every now and then...
Racism – An Overdue Debate
Why are we still talking about race in South Africa, more than a quarter of a century after FW de...
The Church Can’t Exclude People
This week we cover over two pages the contentious subject of homosexuality in the context of our Catholic faith. We expect...
The Mother Teresa Debate
In 1982 Mother Teresa was asked whether she was a saint. “Please, let me die first,” she responded. In the...
Rising Against Corruption
We should be encouraged when authorities and the media expose cases of corruption in the South African government and civil...
Our Prayers for 2016
As we close a traumatic year, locally and worldwide, we enter 2016 with little hope that things may improve. But...
Why Race Still Matters
When the pioneers of the new, democratic South Africa combined as one national holiday the African and Afrikaner commemorations observed...
