Unfriendly suspicions
It is unfortunate that the transfer of the relics of Cardinal John Henry Newman should have produced a slanging match...
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Votes of conscience
Over the next couple of months, the US presidential election campaign will kick into high gear – and with it...
Making our voice heard
If one were to form an opinion about the Catholic Church based entirely on its coverage in South Africas mainstream...
How women dress
Less than a century ago, it was considered indecent for a woman to bare her ankles. Today, as fashions have...
SA’s moral obligation
South African politicians, like their counterparts elsewhere, have a way of missing the point. This failing reached a spectacular culmination...
The revolution eats itself
The revolution which leaders of the African National Congress likes to refer to is at risk of eating itself.
Women’s Day: Dignity, not diamonds
IF the marketers are to be believed, South Africa’s Women’s Day on August 9 is most suitably celebrated by buying...
Rise of a counter-culture
In the streets of Sydney during World Youth Day, some protesters handed out condoms to passing pilgrims. Reporters later spotted...
40 years of dissent
IN the 40 years since Pope Paul VI released his encyclical Humanae vitae (Of Human Life), which prohibited the conjugal...
