Leaders of all significant South African churches, including the Catholic Church, have condemned the evident “plundering of public resources”, blatant waste of taxpayers’ money, prevailing corruption, and weakening of public institutions.
Church / Crisis / Letter of the Week / Pope Francis
by Letters Editor · Published October 24, 2018 · Last modified October 23, 2018
Patrick Dacey, Johannesburg – The Church is in crisis. Can we remember when the last pope was called upon to resign by his fellow cardinals and bishops? Yet, Pope Francis has been handed the...
Crisis / Ethics & Human Dignity / War and Refugees
by Jael SC · Published October 22, 2018 · Last modified October 19, 2018
Aid agencies and Catholic officials are sounding the alarm on Yemen’s spiraling humanitarian crisis, calling on the combatants to end the war and make badly need assistance available. Yemen is facing the largest humanitarian...
The Southern Cross editorial of September 12 in favour of a Truth & Reconciliation Commission for repairing the abuse scandal and restoring justice to the Church in the wake of the terrible crisis engulfing the whole Body of Christ, deserves grateful praise.
Church / Crisis / Women and the Church
by Kilian SC · Published October 15, 2018 · Last modified October 12, 2018
In response to current scandals, clericalism and the need for reform, Catholic women must take the initiative and make their voices be heard, according to a series of articles in a Vatican magazine. The...
Abuse / Church / Crisis / Letter of the Week
by Letters Editor · Published October 13, 2018 · Last modified October 9, 2018
Infidelity rather than clericalism is the cause of the current homosexual crisis in the Church. Infidelity, by heterodox priests and prelates, to doctrine that condemns sins of the flesh (especially sodomy, a sin that cries to heaven for vengeance).
by Letters Editor · Published October 11, 2018 · Last modified October 10, 2018
As an adult survivor of clerical sexual abuse I find it hurtful, unjust and sad that it would appear that the majority of the Catholic Church’s hierarchy, from the pope down, is advocating a “zero tolerance” policy only for the clerical abuse of minors and its cover-up.
Christen Torres / Christian Leadership / Crisis
by Christen Torres · Published October 9, 2018 · Last modified October 8, 2018
The brutal attack on a Pretoria study house in which a priest and a seminarian were injured in late September followed an onslaught of crimes against churches over the past few months—but “the Church will continue its work of ministry and service”, Archbishop William Slattery vowed
Church / Crisis / Religious Life
by Letters Editor · Published August 20, 2018 · Last modified August 17, 2018
Fr Sean Collins CSsR, Merrivale, KZN – IT is a year and a half since jihadist militia in Mali kidnapped Colombian Franciscan Sister Gloria Cecilia Narváez Argoti, 53, from her work of caring for...
Hope; the faith or yearning that something depended upon will fulfil itself — this has been the fate of many ordinary citizens of every other country regarding their government. Nigeria is no different. Nigeria...
Churches in Limpopo are urging elders to talk openly with younger people about violence against women and children, to tackle the problem together.
Christian Living / Church / Crisis
by Kilian SC · Published June 1, 2018 · Last modified May 31, 2018
Paul and Rose Utes, members of Sacred Heart Parish in Pahoa, had to leave their home when lava from the Kilauea eruptions moved into their section of the Leilani Estates subdivision in Puna on the Big Island.
