- 19 Apr 2013 00:00 - Faeeza Ballim
- Gay and lesbian migrants, refugees and locals have found sanctuary and sanity in a place of worship in Braamfontein, Johannesburg.
- 19 Apr 2013 00:00 - Melanie Judge
- To deny the existence of gay people is to render them unknowable, says Melanie Judge.
- 12 Apr 2013 00:00 - Fatima Asmal
- Wilfred Napier speaks about voting for a pope, defends his recent remarks about paedophilia and explains why he can't be called a homophobe.
- 18 Mar 2013 11:36 - Reuters
- Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier has apologised for offending victims of child abuse when described paedophilia as an illness and not a crime.
- 16 Mar 2013 14:33 - Guy Jackson
- Pope Francis has called for "a poor Church for the poor", saying he chose his papal name because St Francis of Assisi shunned riches to help the poor.
- 16 Mar 2013 10:57 - Sapa
- Paedophilia is not a crime, it is a psychological illness, says Catholic Archbishop of Durban Wilfrid Fox Napier according to a report.
- 15 Mar 2013 00:00 - Uki Goni, Jonathan Watts,
- The church and Pope Francis have been accused of complicit silence during Argentina's 'dirty war'.
- 04 Mar 2013 17:14
- We take a look at seven of the most likely candidates to take over from Pope Benedict XVI, the first pope to resign in 600 years.
- 01 Feb 2013 00:00 - Letters
- To the credit of the Vatican, the previous election of a pope did contribute to a notable reward for Germany, writes Professor J Machabeis.
- 01 Mar 2013 00:00 - Andrew Brown
- They call it a resignation, but it looks as though Cardinal Keith O'Brien was pushed before he could even think of jumping.
- 27 Feb 2013 14:42 - Philip Pullella
- Pope Benedict XVI bid an emotional farewell in front of his last general audience, saying he understood the gravity of his decision.
- 25 Feb 2013 13:56 - Reuters
- Pope Benedict has accepted the resignation of Britain's most senior Roman Catholic cleric, who has been accused of inappropriate behavior.
- 17 Feb 2013 08:37 - Afua Hirsch
- Catholicism's European power base is under threat and the election of a new pope could be a historic moment for the church.
- 15 Feb 2013 00:00 - John Hooper
- Sex abuse, secularisation, the Curia – the new pontiff has his work cut out, writes John Hooper.
- 22 Dec 2012 15:37 - AFP
- The pope has pardoned his former butler, who was sentenced to 18 months in jail for leaking secret papal memos, but banished him from the Vatican.
- 22 Sep 2012 12:31 - Sapa-AFP
- A church in Victoria has revealed that at least 620 children have been abused by its clergy since the 30s, sparking a call for an independent inquiry.
- 23 Jun 2012 14:58 - Sapa
- The Pope has called for a series of meetings to "restore trust" in the church after documents exposing corruption in the Catholic Church were leaked.
- 01 Jun 2012 17:00 -
- US Catholic nuns have rejected a Vatican assessment that they have fallen under the sway of feminism and needed to hand control to a trio of bishops.
