Editorials 2002

As we observe the feast of the massacre of the Holy Innocents, our minds turn to the deplorable rate of abortions in South Africa, and the glee...

Catholics will have been dismayed to read news reports which suggest that the cover-up of sexual abuse by priests goes as high up as to the Holy...

Which Christmas are we celebrating this year? In our secularised society, Christmas has long ceased to be mainly the feast of the Nativity of our Lord. Modern...

This week we are publishing a review of a book, provocatively titled A Moral Reckoning, by the US Jewish historian Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, who presents the Catholic...

After Bishop Kevin Dowling last year called on the Church to reconsider its absolute ban on the use of condoms in the fight against Aids, the local...

This month has seen the death of the notorious British child killer Myra Hindley, the “Moors murderer” who spent the remaining 36 years of her life behind...

Two weeks ago we identified, not for the first time, Zimbabwe’s Muga-be regime as displaying traits of fascism.

It is noteworthy that the recent series of bomb blasts by suspected right-wingers in Soweto and Bronkhorst-spruit should roughly coincide with reports of the deplorable racially charged...

This week we quote Pope John Paul as saying that the Church is always holy, despite the failings and scandals in the Church, today and through the...

Last week we reported that a Zimbabwean bishop has elected not to protest against the political harassment of a priest in his diocese. Fr Patrick Kelly of...