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South Africa cannot afford frivolous debates that treat borders as provisional or sovereignty as negotiable.

South Africa’s dangerous drift away from sovereignty and nationhood

Transnational commitments are celebrated, while attachment to the nation‑state is treated with suspicion

Pope Leo XIV. (X)

Pope Leo a breath of fresh air in Trump’s belligerent world

The new pope’s gentle, yet powerful, voice of peace, ethical leadership and human solidarity contrasts sharply with Trump’s divisive rhetoric and militarism

South Africa’s Catholics need to know that the church approves of organ donations.

Will the new pope continue support for ethical organ donation?

It is important for South Africa’s about 3.5 million Catholics to know that the church approves, especially given the low donor rates in the country

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Road to Tanzania’s presidential election paved with blood and fear

In recent months, there has been a spate of abductions, assaults, arrests and murders, the victims all being opponents or critics of President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s government

Pope Francis attracted both admiration and criticism during his tenure, with some criticising him because he disrupted the foundations of their sense of security — which are their empires.

Pope Francis as a shepherd of the marginalised in a world that wants to build empires

As empire builders use violence, greed and environmental destruction to attain their goals, we are in need of citizens of the Kingdom of God who live the gospel

Pope Francis delivers his annual ‘State of the World’ address to members of the Vatican diplomatic corps in January. (Photo: The Vatican)

Pope Francis: The end of a radical papacy born in the south

Francis refused the version of Catholicism that ingratiates itself with the powerful while abandoning the poor

Then Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and Professor Lee Berger hold a replica of the skull of a Homo naledi during the unveiling of the discovery. (File photo)

The God Edition | Searching among the bones for Homo naledi’s soul

Drew Forrest uses one of South Africa’s most important hominid discoveries to debate the paradoxes and contradictions inherent in the religious doctrine of ‘ensoulment’

Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez died on 22 October at the age of 96. (Catholic Register)

How ‘shantytown’ priest Gustavo Gutiérrez changed the world

He developed liberation theology, rooted in the lived experience of the oppressed, and committed to transforming unjust social and political structures

Faith-baiting: Flowers are laid to respect the victims of the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, for which Isis has claimed responsibility. Photo: Contributor/Getty Images

Let’s make a worthy God in our own image

If we make God in our image, let it not be the genocidal maniac worthy only of contempt but rather a God of kindness, worthy of our worship