Our Missionary Mandate
On Mission Sunday we recall with gratitude the great legacy of priests and religious who over the past 150 years
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Editorials 2018
Editorials 2018
The Future of Sex Work
When Jesus ministered to and even socialised with prostitutes, he gave his followers a mandate to aid these most widely reviled women in society.
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Editorials 2018 Pope Francis
The War on the Pope
In his First Letter to the Corinthians, St Paul takes angry issue with evident division among that community’s Christians
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Editorials 2018
The Morality of Dagga
The Constitutional Court’s decriminalisation of the possession of marijuana for private use by adults will raise questions about whether private
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Editorials 2018 Sacraments
Why Confession Seal Cannot be Broken
Calls are getting louder for the seal of the confessional in the sacrament of reconciliation to be loosened to compel
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Abuse Church Editorials 2018
A Truth Commission Is Needed
Some Church leaders still find it difficult to acknowledge that the greater scandal in the distressing history of clerical
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Church Editorials 2018 Mary Shackleton
Celebrating Our Lady’s Birthday
The celebration of the feast of the Nativity of Our Blessed Lady occurs every year on September 8. Oddly, despite
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Editorials 2018 Prayer
Prayers of the Faithful
Guest editorial Michael Shackleton – When the Western Cape and other affected areas recently confronted the prospect of a devastating regional
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Abuse Church Editorials 2018
In Crisis, Keep Hope
As Catholics are hit by wave after wave of old and new abuse scandals, many people are facing a crisis
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