There’s a Saint For Everyone
While it would be an exaggeration to claim that the saints have fallen from the Catholic consciousness, it is fair to say that today the office of...
Editorials 2001
Paedophilia: Protect the children
It is evident that many bishops around the world have been ill equipped to deal with allegations of child molestation by Church personnel in their dioceses. Even...
A Christmas message from the cardinal
GUEST CHRISTMAS EDITORIAL BY CARDINAL WILFRID NAPIER OFM For us, a people battered as we are by a crime rate that is out of control and the...
Stem cell cloning: playing God
Circumstances are rare when secular and religious commentators find some common ground on an ethical issue. The critical reaction to the announcement that a medical firm has...
Pope’s fast for peace
Pope John Paul’s call for a day of prayer and fast for peace on December 14 goes beyond archaic piety. Coupled with the planned inter-faith day of...
President Mbeki and Aids: A bizarre agenda
When history ultimately judges his presidency, Thabo Mbeki risks being examined not for his admirable efforts to kickstart an African renaissance, but for his bizarre agenda involving...
Fascism on our doorstep
The recent banishment of Irish Father Gabriel Maguire from Zimbabwe may or may not have been linked to the priest’s objections to the Mugabe government.
Religion in the new curriculum
The government’s new draft curriculum, which has alarmed many Christians, prominently bears the personal stamp of Kader Asmal, the education minister presiding over its creation.
Bishops after Vatican II
Preparations for this month’s Synod for Bishops offered few hints of just how candid many of the delegates would be in addressing the present system of governance...
Christians and Muslims after September 11
The attacks of September 11 have presented Muslim-Christian relations with new challenges and opportunities. Christian and Western leaders have been at pains to stress that the perpetrators...
