Our prayers for 2009
As we leave behind the year 2008 and enter 2009, we reflect on a year of political and social trauma...
Editorials 2008
Liturgical anger
The sheep are not happy with their shepherds. In recent weeks, The Southern Cross has received a flood of letters,...
This is Christmas
Guest editorial by Bishop Stephen Brislin Awake, mankind, says St Augustine. For your sake God has become man. Awake, you...
The bishop’s load
The late Archbishop Denis Hurley had many friends and admirers, yet he would sometimes complain of the loneliness his position...
Guiding the voters
As South Africa’s political parties are launching their election campaigns—and in at least one instance, themselves — the pastoral letter...
AIDS: A new strategy
When a decade ago the experts drew up their worst-case scenario for HIV/Aids in Africa, they failed to anticipate the...
Better preaching
History may well record Barack Obama’s acceptance speech after being elected the 44th president of the United States as a...
Fit for the priesthood
When the Church accepts a young man for training towards the priesthood, it must be vigilant that the candidate is...
A new market
The experts are telling us that economics may never be the same again after the consequences of the recent collapse...
