Mass on the high seas
Serendipity is one of my favourite words. Its vowels and consonants roll so smoothly off the keyboard when you type […]
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The state and the common good
By Oskar Wermter SJ Former US President George W Bush used to think naïvely that democratic rule comes natural: as
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A good idea shot down by lack of funds
When the xenophobic attacks on foreigners erupted in 2008, many commentators and analysts concluded quite rightly that the attacks were
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Christian Mission Perspectives
We Are All Missionaries Now
By Bishop Jan de Groef of Bethlehem –Â During October we traditionally celebrate World Mission Sunday. Many dioceses give the whole
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Fr Chris Chatteris Perspectives
Year of the Sister?
Shortly after the watershed democratic election of 1994 I was involved in the organisation of the annual meeting of the
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Perspectives Shackleton
SA bishops and condoms
The leading article of The Southern Cross of April 22 strongly implied that our bishops condone the use of condoms by married couples, if
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War on media blasphemy
Five years ago, shortly after discussing in a column the growing tendency for all manner of media to tolerate blasphemy,
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Perspectives Rowland
St Francis and my ‘foster child’
For the last few months, we had a foster child. It started off by him just coming over for a
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Perspectives Simmermacher
Archbishop Hurley and The Southern Cross
This is the full text of the address by Southern Cross editor Günther Simmermacher at the launch of Paddy Kearney’s
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