A climate for change
The world’s leaders must show courage as they prepare for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen from December...
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Media frustration
In an interview with the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano in late October, Cardinal Wilfrid Napier of Durban was asked whether...
Feed the multitudes
In the gospels we read about Jesus’ response when, on two occasions, he was faced with crowds of people he...
Peace the prize
The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama has been greeted with some bemusement, not least...
Mission field youth
This week, Bishop Jan de Groef, a member of a missionary order, reminds us that all the People of God...
Misplaced sympathy
We should be disturbed by the public sympathy film director Roman Polanski has received from some quarters, including the French...
For better or worse
In this Sunday’s Gospel reading we hear Jesus’ injunction that the bond of marriage entered into freely under God is...
Africa’s Church in focus
Not long before his death in 2005, Pope John Paul II imparted on Africa, a continent he loved, a final...
The slaves of 2010
Trafficking in people is the fastest growing source of profit for sophisticated and ruthless criminal enterprises worldwide, according to the...
