Misunderstood teaching
No Catholic can be untouched by the death in Ireland of Savita Halappanavar, the 31-year-old expecting mother who was denied […]
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Editorials Editorials 2012
Editorials Editorials 2012
Preaching at Mass
The complaint is often heard that the standard of preaching at Mass has declined; sometimes this is even cited as
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Preventing crime
Discussions on crime prevention often place an emphasis on law enforcement and the punishment of offenders. Aside from failings in
Editorials Editorials 2012
Barred from communion
Among the many topics for discussion at Octobers Synod of Bishops on New Evangelisation was the difficult subject of the
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Responding to Suicide
This week a priest describes how being confronted by the self-inflicted death of a friend led him to a new
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We are all missionaries
The Year of Faith, which began on October 11 and will run until November 24 next year, is an excellent
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Time to make a stand
Catholics in South Africa have long been reticent in making known their demands and expectations from the secular establishment. Lately
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Understanding Vatican II
When Pope John XXIII announced his intention to hold an ecumenical Church council in 1959, he changed the Church’s course
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The ‘right to die’
In South Africa and elsewhere there has been a recent groundswell proposing the legalisation of euthanasia, presenting assisted suicide as
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