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Think about the Eucharist
At the heart of the Catholic Church is the celebration of the Eucharist, when the faithful are united in the partaking of Christ truly present. Read more…
Genocide in Africa
The names of Hitler, Amin, Stalin, Saddam, Milosevic are analogous with state-sanctioned mass murder. Do you know the name of Sudan’s president? Read more…
How many frequent flyer miles to heaven?
Having lunch a month or so ago with James Clarke of The Star, long time colleague and doyen of South African humour writers, the subject of charity and giving arose.
Clarke insisted that all motorists should make a point of accepting pamphlets that are handed out by those poor wretches at traffic intersections because “they get paid by the number of flyers they hand out, and so you’re actually giving them something by just taking the trouble to slide your window down a few millimetres and take their piece of paper.” Read more…
Corruption is the enemy
The health of a democracy can be judged by the extent of the corruption it permits. If statistics are anything to go by, then South Africa is not in a terrible shape, enjoying a mid-table standing in most international corruption indexes. Alas, chances are that after recent events, South Africa’s ranking will drop. Read more…
The right to object
At a time when apartheid made its last stand in the late 1980s, increasing numbers of young white men refused to be conscripted into the South African Defence Force on grounds of their conscientious objection to an ideology which the army vowed to defend. Some of these men were imprisoned for their principled stand. Read more…
After the Locust
AFTER THE LOCUST: Letters from a Landscape of Faith. Edited by Denise Ackerman. David Philip, Cape Town. 2003. 180pp
Reviewed by Michail Rassool
Hans Küng: My Struggle for Freedom
MY STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM, by Hans Küng. Translated by John Bowden. Continuum, London, 2003. 478 pp
Reviewed by Paddy Kearney
The full story
Hands up if you have experienced being confronted by a colleague, an acquaintance, or even a fellow Catholic with an inaccurate or false statement about the Catholic Church. Read more…
Umzimkulu: 10 years, and still no new shepherd
Umzimkulu means palace or mansion. If names mean anything, Umzimkulu is supposed to refer to décor, royalty and style combined.
The place of that name, in KwaZulu-Natal, seems arid, barren, raped and skewed. Its grass looked starved, livestock malnourished, soil seriously disorganised, and the roads unfriendly to vehicles. Poverty characterises the generality of this diocese. Who would like to live in such a place? Read more…
