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
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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Perspectives Simmermacher
Telesales and a point of principles
Saturday morning, and my cellphone rings. On the other side is an amicable fellow, effusively informing me of the privilege
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Other Writers Perspectives
Excommunicated for what?
By Brian Gaybba The reported excommunication of an American priest, Fr Roy Bourgeois, who defends the view that women can
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Turn endless Africa talk into action
The toughest challenge facing the second Synod of Bishops for Africa in Rome this October is conference fatigue. Another meeting
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45 great life lessons
While it may be true that research often shows journalists to be languishing somewhere in between car salesmen and lawyers
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Ntabeni Perspectives
However low you feel, go to Mass
I went to Sunday Mass under the clasps of melancholy. Prayer failed, or at least failed to be directed by
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God doesn’t turn away from us
Pretoria in the 1950s, and a young Catholic boy is tied up in a Jacaranda tree by none other than
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