Editorials 2005

In the dark days of apartheid, the Catholic bishops shone a light of hope in the fight against institutionalised racism.

A series in this newspaper on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land has raised the hackles of some readers who...

Next week, the world’s Catholic youth will celebrate their faith in Cologne, host city of this year’s World Youth Day...

South African Catholics will have been dismayed to learn on national television news that a Catholic priest has been charged...

Is it possible that Pope Benedict, a Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, really takes a dim view of JK Rowling’s series of...

Even with the benefit of some distance since this month’s terror outrage in London, it is difficult to come to...

Pope Benedict is a man of tact and nuance. Where his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, had a tendency towards...

This week, two concerned voices add to the discussion concerning the exodus of young people from the Catholic Church, one...

When the cardinals prepared to choose a new pope in April, expectations among many of them were high that the...