Responsible votes
As South African voters prepare to go to the polls on April 22, they will be well advised to refer...
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The absence of love
IN his Lenten message, Pope Benedict urges Catholics to detach themselves from material goods and to give to the poor....
Talking gibberish
It is puzzling that the lifting of an excommunication of an individual who intolerably denies the extent of the Holocaust...
Peace in the Holy Land
The latest round of carnage in the Middle East has served to underscore a crucial but often neglected truth: Israel’s...
Overthrowing Mugabe?
For those truly exasperated by Robert Mugabe’s ruinous misrule of Zimbabwe, the vision of military intervention to effect regime change...
Our prayers for 2009
As we leave behind the year 2008 and enter 2009, we reflect on a year of political and social trauma...
Liturgical anger
The sheep are not happy with their shepherds. In recent weeks, The Southern Cross has received a flood of letters,...
The bishop’s load
The late Archbishop Denis Hurley had many friends and admirers, yet he would sometimes complain of the loneliness his position...
Guiding the voters
As South Africa’s political parties are launching their election campaigns—and in at least one instance, themselves — the pastoral letter...
