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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Christian Mission Perspectives
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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Perspectives
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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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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Perspectives
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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