SA’s moral obligation
South African politicians, like their counterparts elsewhere, have a way of missing the point. This failing reached a spectacular culmination...
Editorials 2008
The revolution eats itself
The revolution which leaders of the African National Congress likes to refer to is at risk of eating itself.
Women’s Day: Dignity, not diamonds
IF the marketers are to be believed, South Africa’s Women’s Day on August 9 is most suitably celebrated by buying...
Rise of a counter-culture
In the streets of Sydney during World Youth Day, some protesters handed out condoms to passing pilgrims. Reporters later spotted...
40 years of dissent
IN the 40 years since Pope Paul VI released his encyclical Humanae vitae (Of Human Life), which prohibited the conjugal...
Anglican discord
Whenever religious faith is a source of conflict between believers, God’s name is offended. In that light, the potential for...
Mandela at 90
AS we celebrate Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday on July 18, we rejoice that God has spared us our Father of...
The women priests debate
The Vatican’s statement last month reiterating that Catholic women who are ordained to the priesthood, and those ordaining them, are...
Fix this!
Pope Benedict places his concern for the world’s hungry at the centre of the Church’s social justice platform. Earlier this...
