Zero-tolerance, frank talk on sexuality and power is needed at Vatican abuse summit
Despicable abuses of sex and power by clergy surface widely at this time. To address this scourge, Pope Francis has ordered 100 of the world’s bishops to come to the Vatican for a summit on sexual abuse, from 21-24 February 2... More »
BREAKING NEWS — McCarrick guilty of sexual abuse and stripped of priesthood by Pope
Pope Francis has confirmed the removal of Theodore McCarrick from the clerical state. In a precedential decision by Pope Francis, a cardinal has been defrocked. After months of criticism over sexual abuses of minors and adu... More »
WATCH — SA Bishop on possibility for married clergy
A Retired South African bishop, Fritz Lobinger, was mentioned by Pope Francis during his in-flight press conference returning from World Youth Day festivities in Central America. Ricardo da Silva SJ, caught up with Lobinger a... More »
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In business and politics, the ‘common good’ should be our trump card
South African leaders, whether in business, government or even the non-profit sector, offer us little to desire or indeed to aspire to if we consider the mounds of evidence of corruption and criminality revealed on a daily basis across the country's top brass.... More »
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WATCH — Coadjutor Archbishop Abel Gabuza on bishops, politics and arriving in Durban
Coadjutor Archbishop Abel Gabuza speaks to Ricardo da Silva SJ, acting editor of spotlight.africa, as he prepares to be officially received in the Archdiocese of Durban, at a Mass in Durban this Sunday, 10 February 2019. Gabuza said that the bishops in souther... More »
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Why not registering to vote is bad for democracy
Many South Africans have decided not to register to vote in the upcoming national elections. Anthony Egan SJ begs us to reconsider our decision to register — while we still can — and honour “the memory of those who suffered and sometimes died for what we have ... More »
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Calling for a tax revolt is immoral
Helen Zille, the previous leader of the Democratic Alliance, South Africa's largest opposition party, provoked a social media storm when she threatened to initiate a "tax revolt" if the country's corruption history wasn't timely tackled. Paulina French investi... More »
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Red Hand Day — What I learned from children carrying Kalashnikovs
There are more than 250,000 child soldiers around the world. 12 February is Red Hand Day. The initiative is an international campaign to stop the use of child soldiers. Rampeoane Hlobo, a Jesuit priest ministering in Cape Town and greatly involved with the pli... More »
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Members of Pope’s commission on women deacons speak
Some of the findings of a study on the history of women deacons, as commissioned last year by Pope Francis, were presented at a panel discussion at Fordham University in New York on 15 January 2019. Annemarie Paulin-Campbell shares what she heard, and her own ... More »
