Editorials 2001

Catholic schooling excellence

In this issue, we devote eight pages to Catholic schooling, asserting its positive distinctions. We do so not simply because these schools bear the Catholic label, but...

Archbishop Hurley: A great man’s 50 years

The greatest cardinal the Church never had. This assertion is frequently applied to Archbishop Emeritus Denis Hurley, who celebrates the 50th anniversary of his ordination as archbishop...

Globalisation: the new world order

Humanity is standing on the threshold of a new world order. The advent of technologies such as the Internet, satellites and cellphones, have altered communications to such...

The condom debate

It is a teaching of the Catholic Church that the conjugal act must always leave open the possibility of conception. It is the purpose of devices such...

The SA arms deal

South Africa is facing a security crisis. Crime is threatening to take on anarchic proportions. Aids is decimating the population, with the spectre of Aids orphans making...

Fighting racism

Some years ago there lived in the Cape Town suburb of Fish Hoek a woman who was a great fan of the singer Nat King Cole. In...

The Catholic media now

At the risk of reducing a serious matter to cliche we shall say it again: the media is a crucial tool in the Church’s apostolic mission to...

Judge by the good priests

It is an indication of the often unreasonable expectations many Catholics (and non-Catholics) have of our priests and religious, that when one exhibits human failings, all risk...

The bizarre affair of Archbishop Milingo

The bizarre wedding of Zambian Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo in a Moonie ceremony will have bemused Catholics. Neither Archbishop Milingo nor the Vatican has emerged with much credit...

The Church must be heard

The Catholic Church is the largest single religious denomination in South Africa, at about 7% of the population. Yet this statistical strength is not reflected in its...