“One visible consequence of the sexual activity of young people is that many girl children have babies,” Bishop Sithembele Sipuka of Mthatha (South African), president of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference, said on August 15 as he addressed his brother bishops.
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“If we correct the misdeeds of those in leadership, remove the conditions that make for corruption, decentralize the economy and educate all citizens with skills and values, then the next decade of freedom will see us being better than we are as a country,” says Bishop Sipuka on Freedom Day.
Thus, the message of Easter is that just as suffering and death did not have the last say in Jesus, so our suffering and death in all its manifestations will not have the last word, and this is the joy of Easter.
Observed on March 13, Rt Rev Sithembele Sipuka, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Mthatha, South Africa, in his April newsletter reflects on Pope Francis’s 10th anniversary; “on the person that he is, on his leadership and teachings,” and exhorts the faithful to “deduce how God may be talking to us through him.”