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With past experience as a benchmark, it is likely that Bible Sunday on August 28 will go by unnoticed in...

Addressing a gathering in Durban recently, Cardinal Wilfrid Napier summarised a frustration he shares with many South Africans about “racial...

As you read this, some 1200 young people from South Africa, Botswana and Swaziland are enthusiastically preparing to participate in...

It is almost 40 years ago since the Second Vatican Council in its closing message predicted: “The hour is coming,...

Some years ago The Southern Cross learned of an inmate in a South African prison who decided to convert to...

The release this month of the final movie in the Harry Potter franchise has revived the inevitable debate about whether...

In international terms, the Catholic Church in Southern Africa is something of a backwater. With few exceptions notably the struggle...

Something remarkable happened in South Africa in May. Only days before the municipal elections on May 18, communities in Ficksburg,...

In his 2009 encyclical Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth), Pope Benedict said that businesses cannot be ethically neutral: either...