Rising Against Corruption
We should be encouraged when authorities and the media expose cases of corruption in the South African government and civil service. It is an indicator that our...
Editorials 2015
Our Prayers for 2016
As we close a traumatic year, locally and worldwide, we enter 2016 with little hope that things may improve. But as believers we draw our courage from...
Emmanuel: His Name is God with us
GUEST EDITORIAL BY FR PATRICK RAKEKETSI CSS –Â O Emmanuel, is the seventh and last , O antiphon. Emmanuel is the Greek form of the Hebrew Immanuel, a...
Why Race Still Matters
When the pioneers of the new, democratic South Africa combined as one national holiday the African and Afrikaner commemorations observed on December 16, they expressed great hope...
The Call to Mercy
On December 8, the feast of the Immaculate Conception, Pope Francis will open the Holy Door of St Peters’s basilica in the Vatican, and with that launch...
Fight the Real Enemy
The day after the terror attacks in Beirut and Paris, a group of Palestinians stood outside the church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the birthplace of the...
The Trap of Prostitution
When Jesus ministered to and even socialised with prostitutes, he gave his followers a mandate to aid these most widely reviled women in society.
Attacks on Pope Francis
This may be the most startling comment to emerge on last month’s Synod on the Family: “Never in my lifetime have I heard of bishops and cardinals...
The Great Denis Hurley
During the dark days of apartheid, a group of bishops met with President PW Botha in a bid to present their concerns to the government. At one...
Fruits of a Synod
GUEST EDITORIAL BY FR RUSSELL POLLITT After three weeks of intense work at the Synod of Bishops on the Family, no significant changes to Church discipline or...
