The great transition
Twenty years ago on February 2, President FW de Klerk formally pronounced the death of the apartheid system with his […]
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Editorials Editorials 2010
Editorials Editorials 2010
Church in the margins
Archbishop Vincent Nichols Of Westminster is right when he compares the dogmatic stridency of some secularists with that of “the
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Editorials Editorials 2010
The preaching problem
An Italian bishop has articulated what many Catholics in South Africa are thinking: that homilies — the pre-eminent form of
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Editorials Editorials 2010
The Pius XII dilemma
When Pope Benedict declared Pope Pius XII venerable in December, the outraged reaction from some quarters was predictable. The war-time
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Editorials Editorials 2009 Jesus
Where would Jesus Stand?
It would require a very peculiar reading of the Gospel to locate Jesus anywhere else but at the side of
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Editorials Editorials 2009
In the Darkest Hours
Catholics are rightly shocked by the report of abuses committed against minors by priests and the handling of allegations of
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Editorials Editorials 2009
The Malema question
South Africa’s most controversial politician today must be Julius Malema, the president of the African National Congress Youth League. To
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Editorials Editorials 2009
AIDS: No easy answers
President Jacob Zuma this month acknowledged that South Africa is “not yet winning” the fight against HIV/Aids, pointing out that
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