Editorials 2004

As South Africans slowly recover from the euphoria of winning the bid for the FIFA World Cup in 2010, the real work of organising the event must...

Southern African Catholics who had the privilege of meeting Archbishop Manuel Monteiro de Castro, the apostolic nuncio in Pretoria from 1998 to 2000, will remember him as...

It is a cruel paradox that the history of Christianity should be marked by festering antagonism among the followers of Christ. Many South African Catholics will recall...

Good sense has prevailed in the Vatican’s long-awaited document on liturgical practices, Redemptionis sacramentum (The Sacrament of Redemption) Pope John Paul last year requested the preparation of...

Pope John Paul, in his message for the World Day of Prayer for Vocations, says that it is his “most heartfelt wish” that prayers for vocations to...

As Rwanda this month commemorated the tenth anniversary of its genocide, the international community rightly expressed much contrition over its failure to intervene in the Holocaust, which...

When the Pontifical Council for Culture said last month that the Church’s biggest challenge in Western societies was religious indifference rather than atheism or the denial of...

There is a saying that we have only three needs in life. If these are fulfilled, we can be assured of perfect contentment: Someone to love, something...

In The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson has presented the account of Christ’s passion with fidelity to the gospels, augmented by scenes in which the director...

Witnesses describing the scene of the monstrous terror attack in Madrid told of the ceaseless ringing of cellphones, many presumably chiming a happy tune, as families desperately...