Our ‘Conscience Reigns Supreme’ – What does this really mean?
We grow up thinking of our conscience as those yes and no voices in our head one encouraging us to do the right thing, the other voice...
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by Claire Mathieson · Published June 8, 2017 · Last modified August 2, 2017
We grow up thinking of our conscience as those yes and no voices in our head one encouraging us to do the right thing, the other voice...
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by Anthony Egan · Published January 19, 2017 · Last modified January 17, 2017
As you may have guessed from the headline this article addresses the subject of women and Vatican II. If Church statistics are reliable, it should in fact...
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by Claire Mathieson · Published September 12, 2012 · Last modified October 25, 2013
Being told by your editor that you are going to write a year-long series on a subject you know little about is a daunting prospect, and hardly...
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by Anthony Egan · Published September 5, 2012 · Last modified October 25, 2013
In the song “A New Argentina” from the Lloyd Webber/Rice musical Evita, the generals sing: “We face the world together with no dissent from within.” For many, sympathisers...
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by Claire Mathieson · Published August 29, 2012 · Last modified October 25, 2013
In a world increasingly dominated by media and communications, the Church is called to join in. If that means meeting her people online, on air, in print,...
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by Anthony Egan · Published August 26, 2012 · Last modified October 28, 2013
Sometimes it seems that we never forgave Gutenberg for inventing his printing press! Though the Church has engaged with various forms of public media from the beginning,...
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by Claire Mathieson · Published August 15, 2012 · Last modified October 25, 2013
The one thing, it seems, that South African youth have going for them is their youthfulness. With a shortage of job opportunities, the prevalence of disease and...
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by Anthony Egan · Published July 29, 2012 · Last modified July 17, 2017
Religious life, it is said, is in crisis. And, some say, it’s Vatican II that caused all the trouble! Let’s analyse this statement, as dispassionately as possible,...
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by Claire Mathieson · Published July 18, 2012 · Last modified October 25, 2013
In a world of crime, corruption, sex, violence, scandal and misery, there are a few who dare to be different by showing the world that “living in...
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by Anthony Egan · Published July 16, 2012 · Last modified September 21, 2017
Many years ago I read a book titled Bishops – But What Kind? It was a collection of essays by Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant scholars about the different...
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