Online Articles
FREE e-Newsletter
Sign up below to get our free weekly newsletter packed with news & updates.-
~ We Respect Your Privacy ~
The stem cell debate
When the Church developed the modern reasoning behind its teaching that all human life is sacred from the moment of conception, cloning was the stuff of science fiction fantasy. Read more…
Marketing the Church?
Does the Church need a marketing strategy? This was a question I posed to a Catholic working for a successful marketing company.
Marketing is a buzz word today. A company or business entity cannot succeed without marketing. Working in communications, I know how marketing and advertising are important for modern enterprises. Read more…
Eucharist and mission
Cardinal Jozef Tomko coined a phrase at the International Eucharistic Congress in Mexico that should endure in our minds during the Year of the Eucharist: “Ask who the Eucharist is, not what the Eucharist is.” Read more…
Failing the poor
South Africa’s clothing manufacturing industry is in a crisis. The stronger rand has affected export opportunities, while the local market is flooded with imported garments, especially from East Asia, that are cheaper (and often of inferior quality to locally produced goods). Read more…
Salt – A World History
SALT: A World History, by Mark Kurlansky. Penguin, 2003. 496pp.
Reviewed by Günther Simmermacher
The history of the world up to the 1800s has been tied to the history of salt. This, as promised in the title, is the message of Marl Kurlansky’s highly entertaining book.
Bush, Kerry and the Church
As the presidential election campaign in the United States enters its final phase, the American public – indeed, the whole world – is becoming increasingly polarised. Read more…
Springtime: Planting the seeds
The song in my head went: “I watch the sunrise, lighting the sky, warming the earth below. And on that morning bright though it be, I feel your shadows near me. But you are always close to me…”
I was particularly blessed to be able to go on a flower-viewing pilgrimage up the Cape West Coast in September. “You should stop and smell the flowers”, one is told so often when living a hectic life, as most of us do. Well those wild spring flowers don’t smell much, but the sight is unbelievable. Read more…
