‘Church Now in Transition Period’
Patrick Dacey, Johannesburg – ‘The difficulty which we [the Catholic Church] face today, is that we are living in a...
Letters Editor
Clear Answers Needed Now on SA Church Abuse
Mervyn Pollitt, Waterfall, KZN – The case of a Jesuit priest’s sexual abuse of William Segodisho in the late 1980s...
Rampant Capitalism Hurts Women the Most
Sr Angelika Laub OP, Pretoria – Most people in developed countries and many millions living in towns in developing...
Pope Francis Left to Handle Crisis
Patrick Dacey, Johannesburg – The Church is in crisis. Can we remember when the last pope was called upon to...
Mary as Mother and Advocate
Fr Sekabata Solomon Mphela OFM, Johannesburg – The feast of St Francis falls in October during the month of the...
No Stopwatch When Praying!
Tom Drake, Johannesburg – Different folks, different strokes! I have always had a problem with set prayers rattled off in...
Why I Won’t Vote With My Feet
Cecil Cullen, Johannesburg – Reflecting on the sex abuse scandals, we humans are called to worship our God, and being...
If Pope is Innocent of Vigano’s Claim, Let Him Say So
The Southern Cross editorial of September 12 in favour of a Truth & Reconciliation Commission for repairing the abuse scandal and restoring justice to the Church in the wake of the terrible crisis engulfing the whole Body of Christ, deserves grateful praise.
This Violence is Not Who We Are!
While I was reading an article by Ricardo da Silva SJ on Jesuit Institute Connect, titled “A Pain That We Must Hold”, my mind took me to the recent survey concerning the escalating level of violence in our country.
