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 / Pope Francis / Your Letters
Patrick Dacey, Johannesburg – The Church is in crisis. Can we remember when the last pope was called upon to...
Aid agencies and Catholic officials are sounding the alarm on Yemen’s spiraling humanitarian crisis, calling on the combatants to end...
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.
In response to current scandals, clericalism and the need for reform, Catholic women must take the initiative and make their...
Abuse / Church / Crisis / Your Letters
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).
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.
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
Fr Sean Collins CSsR, Merrivale, KZN – IT is a year and a half since jihadist militia in Mali kidnapped...
