![A number of topics were covered in the Saturday press briefing for the Synod of Bishops on Young People. These included the bishops giving young people their high-profile voices, the right of people to stay at home and receive adequate development, the place of Scripture, clerical sex abuse and same-sex attraction. Russell Pollitt SJ writes from Rome. Dr Paolo Ruffini, Prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Communication, said that the Synod had concluded with the third part, the pastoral response […]](https://i2.wp.com/spotlight.africa/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Press-Briefing.jpeg?resize=750%2C422&ssl=1)
I’m a stateless child so I can’t go to school — Thabo’s story
A problem which we don’t hear very much about is that of statelessness. It’s almost taken for granted that one automatically gains citizenship from their land of birth. This proves the oblivion in which we live. The complicat... More »
Synod 2018 — Ministering online
The sad reality of migrant youth and their families and how the Church should use the digital world was the focus of the daily Synod of Bishops on Youth, the Faith and Vocational Discernment press briefing writes Russell Poll... More »
VBS Heist: The poor get ripped off again
Disturbing details are beginning to emerge of an elaborate billion-rand bank robbery seemingly orchestrated by senior politicians, government officials and top-earning corporate professionals. Media reports in recent days hav... More »
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St Romero: the people of God knew him a saint long before the Church officially declared him one
The canonisation of murdered Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador was greatly contested within the Church. His model Christian life was a threat to his brother clerics who found his ways too radical and too challenging of their own lifestyles. They saw him a... More »
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Synod 2018 — Becoming “digital missionaries”
Today at the Synod briefing the press were told that a repeated theme in conversation in the Synod assembly was how the Church can be part of the digital world. For this, the Church needs “digital missionaries” reports Russell Pollitt SJ from the Vatican. Dr P... More »
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Root out rot from our institutions
Corruption seems to have an unbridled hold on our institutions and it is time we welcome any and all attempts to expose situations and people that have allowed it to fester. Mputhumi Nthabeni welcomes calls to investigate and reform institutions that have gone... More »
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Ramaphosa’s decisions show and advance ethical governance
The positive significance of two recent political developments in South Africa cannot be overstated. The voluntary resignation of Mr Nhlanhla Nene and the unprecedented decision by President Cyril Rampahosa not to exercise the right to use his unilateral power... More »
Africa
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A refugee woman’s pursuit of happiness
Women bear more than their fair share of the burdens left by the violent conflicts existing across Africa. Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya recently visited a women’s shelter run by religious sisters near the Zimbabwe-South Africa border. There, he spoke to women trying... More »
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Pope recognises illicitly ordained Chinese bishops
Saturday 22 September 2018 saw the signing of an agreement between the Vatican and China which is set to be a watershed moment in diplomatic and church relations, after years of much controversy and turmoil between them, reports Hannah Brockhaus. After the si... More »
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