Let’s Beat Corruption
Guest Editorial by Michael Shackleton –Â CORRUPTION is an ugly word. It means doing something dishonest for ones personal gain, and...
Editorials 2006
Let’s help the visitors
Guest Editorial by Michael Shackleton –Â Any crowded place is an opportunity for slick confidence tricksters, thieves and muggers to move...
Sacred Song: The Road Ahead
Guest Editorial by Michael Shackleton –Â Church musicians, like the rest of the musical world this year, are celebrating the 250th...
The pope at Auschwitz
THE visit of the German-born Pope Benedict to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland will have impressed not only those...
Zuma: Democracy’s growing pain
Events in South African politics over the next few months will doubtless be pivotal in establishing who will succeed President...
While the earth is dying
The excesses of the industrial worlds lifestyle will have the most devastating effect on the poor in sub-Saharan Africa. This...
The Vatican and condoms
NEWS that the Vatican is working on a document intended to clarify the Church’s teaching on the use of condoms...
Da Vinci Code: The upside
This month will see the release of the movie version of the controversial and over-publicised Dan Brown novel The Da...
The Nature of Vocations
A vocation, as Pope Benedict said earlier this year, is akin to works of charity. The person in the consecrated...
