Beware World Cup greed
In just over three months’ time, South Africa will finally welcome the world as guests at the football World Cup....
Editorials
SA’s moral compass
President Jacob Zuma’s proposed national dialogue on morality in South Africa is most welcome, even if the announcement’s timing and...
Abuse: Only the truth will heal
It is encouraging that the bishops of Ireland and Pope Benedict have acknowledged the gravity of the Irish Church’s failings...
Shroud’s truth is in the fruits
As the Church prepares to exhibit the Shroud of Turin, which many hold to be Christ’s burial cloth, the debate...
Zuma and marriage
President Jacob Zuma has of late returned the discussion of marriage into the public domain, first by marrying his third...
Health of mind and body
The annual World Day for the Sick on February 11 serves to shine the Church’s light on those who are...
The great transition
Twenty years ago on February 2, President FW de Klerk formally pronounced the death of the apartheid system with his...
Church in the margins
Archbishop Vincent Nichols Of Westminster is right when he compares the dogmatic stridency of some secularists with that of “the...
The preaching problem
An Italian bishop has articulated what many Catholics in South Africa are thinking: that homilies — the pre-eminent form of...
