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Bishops’ accountability
Just when Catholics thought the sex scandals in the Church had blown over, a new episode hit the headlines, this time in Austria. Read more…
Why communication can kill you
Don’t look now, but there’s a new sickness on the horizon that is going to be even more devastating than HIV/Aids. It’s called communication.
Seriously, communication is going to be the death of us if we don’t watch out. Companies are simply going to have to start implementing procedures to prevent employees from burning out in their early 20s. We simply can’t go on like this. I don’t think we were ever meant to. Read more…
Zimbabwe and sanctions
Cardinal Wilfrid Napier’s call on the South African government to consider imposing “intelligent sanctions” on Zimbabwe’s Mugabe regime is timely. Alas, his appeal will inevitably fall on deaf ears. Read more…
With God in the passenger seat
Have you felt like killing a taxi driver lately? It would not be too flippant to note that many of them seem to make it a sport to provoke such an impulse. Read more…
Cherish our grandparents
Celebrating Fathers’ Day recently got me thinking about grandfathers, too. And with the feast of Jesus’ grandpa and granny, Ss Joachim and Anne, on July 26, this is also an appropriate time to celebrate grandparenthood at home and in our parishes.
Even though many children nowadays have parents who have remarried, and so could have four sets of grandparents, there seems to be a dearth of granddads. (Do grandfathers make themselves scarce when they see what is involved or expected of them?) Read more…
A father’s love
Would a family-friendly father be one who, on Father’s Day, hides under the blankets and waits for his children to rouse him for a breakfast of soggy toast, cold eggs and coffee–or does he get up and make them a special breakfast? Read more…
Stand up for the faith
This week we report about the downgrading of the chapel in Johannesburg International Airport to a “prayer room”, along with the substitution of Christian symbols with Muslim emblems on signposts. Read more…
