Editorials 2004

Cardinal Jozef Tomko coined a phrase at the International Eucharistic Congress in Mexico that should endure in our minds during the Year of the Eucharist: “Ask who...

South Africa’s clothing manufacturing industry is in a crisis. The stronger rand has affected export opportunities, while the local market is flooded with imported garments, especially from...

As the presidential election campaign in the United States enters its final phase, the American public – indeed, the whole world – is becoming increasingly polarised.

At the heart of the Catholic Church is the celebration of the Eucharist, when the faithful are united in the partaking of Christ truly present. Pope John...

The names of Hitler, Amin, Stalin, Saddam, Milosevic are analogous with state-sanctioned mass murder. Do you know the name of Sudan’s president? Omar el-Bashir came to power...

The health of a democracy can be judged by the extent of the corruption it permits. If statistics are anything to go by, then South Africa is...

At a time when apartheid made its last stand in the late 1980s, increasing numbers of young white men refused to be conscripted into the South African...

Hands up if you have experienced being confronted by a colleague, an acquaintance, or even a fellow Catholic with an inaccurate or false statement about the Catholic...

Catholics watching images of the recent papal Mass in Lourdes will have been saddened at the palpable extent of Pope John Paul’s physical decline, even after years...

The Catholic Church professes an immutable belief in the sanctity of life, a principle that bridges doctrinal, theological and philosophical friction within the Church. And yet, we...