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		<title>South Africa&#8217;s Church Crisis Has a Catholic Answer</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[A recurrent experience of being in central Durban is gridlock in the centre of town whenever there is a march [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[By Mike Pothier, CPLO &#8211; “Even though you meant harm to me, God meant it for good, to achieve this present [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[By Sheila Pires, SACBC &#8211; The members of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC) say political parties in South [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[From July 10-12, the Dominican family in Southern Africa gathered at Emaphethelweni Dominican Community in Pietermaritzburg for a two-day blended [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[By Carol Glatz,  CNS &#8211; A nation&#8217;s welfare and social service systems are a reminder that everything is connected, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[The bishops of Southern Africa have condemned “the greed and the indifference displayed by the business and political elite in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[By Simon Caldwell &#8211; Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster congratulated the United Kingdom&#8217;s new prime minister, Liz Truss, and urged [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[By Cindy Wooden &#8211; For politics to be &#8220;the highest form of charity,&#8221; as Catholic social teaching promotes, it must [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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