Justice in labour
Lately a perceptive cartoon has made the rounds on the social networks. It lampoons a history of attempts by business...
Editorials 2012
Faith amid scandal
It was sadly predictable that the media marvelled at the idea that Queen Elizabeth II could attract a million people...
Are our Catholic schools still Catholic?
There is an increasingly louder refrain which bemoans that Catholic schools are no longer Catholic. Usually the criticism presumes to...
Getting over the past
Even after 18 years of democracy, issues of race continue to dominate our public discourse – and that can be...
Reframing the message
In March Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the archbishop of Vienna, was asked to arbitrate in a dispute in an Austrian parish...
Mary and our faith
Catholics have a very special relationship with the Blessed Virgin Mary, the mother of our Saviour Jesus Christ  a relationship...
Catholics and Atheists
This week we devote the entire letters page of responses to an atheist who wrote of his disappointing experience of...
Bullying: zero tolerance
A new American documentary titled Bully is currently making international news, bringing to the forefront a social problem that is...
Hear Christ’s call to follow him
The state of vocations to the priesthood in South Africa has yet to reach the point of crisis experienced in...
