Welcome to our new Nuncio, Archbishop Peter Wells
The Church in Southern Africa will extend a warm welcome to Archbishop Peter Wells when he arrives in Pretoria to...
Editorials 2016
Attacks on Priests
South African Catholics were shocked this month to learn of the brutal attack on a Cape Town priest in his...
State-of-the-Nation: A Test of Leadership
When Jacob Zuma takes to the parliamentary podium to address South Africa in his annual State-of-the-Nation address on February 11,...
Stop the Scheming
The Catholic Church is not immune to internal conflict and division, to cliques, to scheming and backstabbing. Every now and then...
Racism – An Overdue Debate
Why are we still talking about race in South Africa, more than a quarter of a century after FW de...
The Church Can’t Exclude People
This week we cover over two pages the contentious subject of homosexuality in the context of our Catholic faith. We expect...
The Mother Teresa Debate
In 1982 Mother Teresa was asked whether she was a saint. “Please, let me die first,” she responded. In the...
