Opening the Pulpit
The lay preaching ministry would also help alleviate problems created by the shortage of priests. A constant refrain in the […]
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Spotlight on the Church
When the film Spotlight won this year’s Oscar for Best Movie, many Catholics will have choked a little. The film’s subject
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Dealing With Life Editorials 2016 Lent
Victory with Self-Control
GUEST EDITORIAL BY MICHAEL SHACKLETON This month we reported that Cardinal Napier of Durban had written a pastoral letter in
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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
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Attacks on Priests
South African Catholics were shocked this month to learn of the brutal attack on a Cape Town priest in his
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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,
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Stop the Scheming
The Catholic Church is not immune to internal conflict and division, to cliques, to scheming and backstabbing. Every now and then
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Racism – An Overdue Debate
Why are we still talking about race in South Africa, more than a quarter of a century after FW de
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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
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