Standing up for the Church
The joy Catholics will have felt at the worldwide plethora of goodwill towards the Catholic Church following the death of...
Editorials
A man for all seasons
It is a mark of the pervasive nature of Pope John Paul II’s pontificate that the nature of his successor...
A disposable life
The death by starvation of Terri Schiavo in a Florida hospital on March 31 is an indictment of a society...
Da Vinci Code: A liberty with facts?
The book The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown has become a cultural phenomenon that may yet come to help...
A racist Church?
Catholics who this month were greeted with the banner headline informing them that there was a “race shock” in their...
Something astonishing
One Friday afternoon before the Jewish feast of Passover almost 2000 years ago there died a leader of a religious...
That all might be free
As South Africa prepares for Human Rights Day, March 21, it is fitting that our focus this week should fall...
Kicking out racism
As South Africans stood in those queues that characterised their first inclusive election, the optimistic elation seemed to suggest that...
Media: the pope’s mandate
Pope John Paul, in his new apostolic letter on the communications media, Rapid Development, makes a profound point when he...
