Youth takes charge
Secular Aids activism has evidently resigned itself to regarding the promotion of condoms as the only practical method of Aids...
Editorials 2002
Training future priests
In his message for Vocations Sunday, Pope John Paul refers to the low rate of vocations in Europe and North...
No more cover-ups
Is The Southern Cross taking delight in what can only be described as a hurricane of sex scandals in the...
Who is called by God?
IT is admirable that the leadership of the Catholic Church has at last been convinced of the need to act...
Nothing “mad” about Easter
WHEN Paul the Apostle told the Athenians of Christ’s Resurrection, he was laughed to scorn (Acts 17:32). He was not...
Jesus crucified every day
MANY homilists on Good Friday will ask us to empathise with the torment of our Lord, from the time of...
The glue of community
IT is no accident that the Eucharist is often referred to as “Communion,” for the communal sharing of Christ’s body...
It’s time to go, Mr Mugabe
IT is a startling thought that in his fierce efforts to preserve power, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe is galvanised not...
The war on our children
It is a tormented society indeed in which the rape of a child does not constitute the contemptible exception. Many...
