Editorials 2006

In 2006, the world was spared the astonishing series of natural disasters and terrorist attacks that shook us in the previous year but it was a year...

GUEST CHRISTMAS EDITORIAL BY PROFESSOR PETER HUNTER – Christmas means different things to different people. For the young children of families who can afford it, it is primarily...

Commenting on a recent “Santa Claus Parade” in his English hometown, an Internet blogger remarked on the succession of floats on display. One that agitated the blogger...

Since Vatican II, the Catholic Church has sought dialogue with other Christian denominations, notably the Orthodox, Anglican and Lutheran churches, and with other religious faiths, in particular...

When Pope Benedict convened a meeting of curial top brass to discuss the question of obligatory celibacy in the Latin-rite priesthood, there was no likelihood that this...

President Thabo Mbeki has made many harmful statements on the question of HIV/Aids. History will rightly record these as having tarnished his good reputation. However, one of...

Over the years, this newspaper has repeatedly covered and promoted the work done by Radio Veritas, recognising that a Catholic broadcaster is vital to the Church in...

Cast your mind back to the last time you saw in public—a supermarket, a restaurant, on television—a person with severe burns injuries. Unless your family or professional...

We may safely presume that not every reader of this newspaper will be delighted at the call by French church leaders for Christians everywhere to oppose the...

The Catholic hierarchy of Southern Africa has now made its submission to parliament’s portfolio committee on home affairs on the question of same-sex unions, stating the Church’s...