We are all missionaries
The Year of Faith, which began on October 11 and will run until November 24 next year, is an excellent […]
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Editorials Editorials 2012
Editorials Editorials 2012
Time to make a stand
Catholics in South Africa have long been reticent in making known their demands and expectations from the secular establishment. Lately
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Editorials Editorials 2012
Understanding Vatican II
When Pope John XXIII announced his intention to hold an ecumenical Church council in 1959, he changed the Church’s course
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Editorials Editorials 2012
The ‘right to die’
In South Africa and elsewhere there has been a recent groundswell proposing the legalisation of euthanasia, presenting assisted suicide as
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Editorials Editorials 2012
The leadership battle
The next few weeks will be of long-term importance for the future of South Africa as local branches and regions
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Editorials Editorials 2012
Boycotting Israel
South Africa is taking a lead in instituting boycotts of Israel over that country’s occupation of the West Bank, and
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Editorials Editorials 2012
Drinking and driving
The reaction in the United States and elsewhere to the news of the arrest of an archbishop for driving under
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Editorials Editorials 2012
Speaking with silence
When we speak of communications, it seems counter-intuitive to counsel the virtues of silence, as Pope Benedict does this year
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Editorials Editorials 2012
A return to civility
The Catholic Church around the world is evidently becoming fed up with a lack of civility in public discourse. In
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