Editorials 2004

Only in exceptional circumstances should an editorial serve as a tribute to one who has died. The death of Southern Cross columnist Noel Bruyns on December 6...

Now that the legalisation of what is widely referred to as “gay marriage” is virtually inevitable in South Africa, the local Church must find a strategy in...

The Catholic Church in Africa will be invigorated by Pope John Paul’s announcement that he plans to convene a second African Synod of Bishops, a decade after...

Every year around Advent, a slew of Christmas-themed movies hits the cinemas. Some are deliberately cynical, others take a more conventional approach of highlighting positive seasonal virtues.

The broadcast on South African television of a BBC-produced documentary on the Catholic Church and condoms–more than six months after its original telecast in Britain–may well have...

In recent weeks, some readers have questioned whether Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, a Catholic, should continue to receive holy Communion, particularly at Masses that form part of...

The Second Vatican Council taught in word and deed that the Catholic Church must always read and respond to “the signs of the times”. The new Compendium...

South Africa’s past has been dominated by issues of race, and so will the future be. The social engineering of apartheid inevitably must be undone. This must...

When the Church developed the modern reasoning behind its teaching that all human life is sacred from the moment of conception, cloning was the stuff of science...