Were rules bent for Pope John Paul II?
Pope John Paul II died only in 2005 yet he is to be beatified this year, barely six years later....
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Questioning the Church
I am a 44-year-old Catholic but I think the Church has failed. After attending the Amazing Discoveries 2010 series run...
200 years of Darwinism
In 2009 the scientific world celebrated the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. Since then there has been...
When did girl servers come in?
Growing up in the 1960s, I used to complain that my brothers were allowed to serve the priest on the...
The ethics of Mass in China
In July I visited China for two weeks as part of an official South African delegation. China has no real freedom of religion. Catholics...
How do we forgive priests who sin?
Other parishioners and I find it hard to forgive, or even begin to understand how the Lord’s anointed priests can...
In defence of Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa of Calcutta has been accused of having been a hard-line conservative whose clinics were poorly run and who...
Confession can’t be coercive
Bishop Girotti of the Vatican’s Apostolic Penitentiary reportedly said that a priest who confesses sexual abuse should generally not be...
The pope is more than a soccer captain
I am confused about what is called the collegiality of the bishops of the Church. If the bishops, including the...
