Safeguarding liturgy
As the Vatican is preparing to root out liturgical abuses, it is encouraging to learn that the draft document on...
Editorials
The first line of defence
Earlier this month SABC3 broadcast a programme produced in the United States titled “Catholic Sex”, which contemplated the nature of...
The elusive peace
Forty years after Pope John XXIII addressed the theme of peace in his encyclical Pacem in terris, the world continues...
Israel’s wall of hate
When in 1961 the communist government of East Germany built a wall to divide the city of Berlin, the international...
Legacy of the smiling pope
This week 25 years ago, Pope John Paul I was nearing the halfway mark of his brief pontificate. Catholics around...
South Africa’s sainthood cause
Pope John Paul has described the saints as people who have “lived an ordinary life in an extraordinary way”. This...
School bullies: Fighting back
Statistics suggesting that half of all children subjected to bullying in schools are likely to develop psychological harm as a...
Same sex unions: Shaping the law
The governments new proposed policy on religion in education is the fruit of tough negotiations between an education minister instinctively...
Women in the Church
In August, South Africans observe the secular National Womens Day. Catholics also celebrate their patronal feast day of the Assumption,...
