Responding to Suicide
This week a priest describes how being confronted by the self-inflicted death of a friend led him to a new...
Editorials 2012
We are all missionaries
The Year of Faith, which began on October 11 and will run until November 24 next year, is an excellent...
Time to make a stand
Catholics in South Africa have long been reticent in making known their demands and expectations from the secular establishment. Lately...
Understanding Vatican II
When Pope John XXIII announced his intention to hold an ecumenical Church council in 1959, he changed the Church’s course...
The ‘right to die’
In South Africa and elsewhere there has been a recent groundswell proposing the legalisation of euthanasia, presenting assisted suicide as...
The leadership battle
The next few weeks will be of long-term importance for the future of South Africa as local branches and regions...
Boycotting Israel
South Africa is taking a lead in instituting boycotts of Israel over that country’s occupation of the West Bank, and...
Drinking and driving
The reaction in the United States and elsewhere to the news of the arrest of an archbishop for driving under...
Speaking with silence
When we speak of communications, it seems counter-intuitive to counsel the virtues of silence, as Pope Benedict does this year...
