Editorials 2001

Catholics have been facing a moral dilemma since the terror attacks of September 11: how would the response by the United States and its allies be compatible...

The agenda of the Synod of Bishops taking place in the Vatican is substantial enough to keep its participants busy for a month.

Parliament’s monitoring committee on the improvement of the quality of life and status of women heard lately that rape was now probably the most serious public health...

TIME magazine last week published a concise assessment of the recent United Nations’ Conference Against Racism. Written by Michael Elliott, it scathingly called the conference a disaster...

Next week The Southern Cross will observe Social Communications Sunday, looking at various means by which the message of our Church is disseminated.

This week we feature the story of 18-year-old Emile Leaner, one of 5000 South Africans in need of a kidney transplant. It is ironic that on the...

Predictably, the South African public has bought into the hype surrounding Big Brother, M-Net’s new reality TV show in which a dozen young people are cooped up...

As Robert Mugabe and his Zanu-PF government continue to add one glum chapter after another to the distressing tale that is Zimbabwe’s history, the world seems at...

There is no more compelling argument than the cliché, “the oldest profession in the world”, to persuade us that the problem of prostitution is unlikely to disappear.

At first glance, the self-imposed suspension of further research by the Jewish-Catholic study group exploring the wartime record of Pope Pius XII may seem like an academic...