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Iraq invasion: Three years later
Three years ago, the United States and Britain led a coalition of willing nations in the invasion of Iraq, a sovereign country. Read more…
Invalid ordinations?
When is a person’s ordination by a bishop to the priesthood invalid? Does the intention of the one who asks for ordination play a role in this? What about the sacraments and Masses celebrated by an invalidly ordained priest? Read more…
God’s Way
Reviewed by Michail Rassool
God’s Way (Part 1), a documentary produced by Metanoia Ministries, a national Catholic film production company based in Cape Town, is marketed as “the first production of its kind in Southern Africa dealing with various themes relating to life and sexuality, such as the marriage covenant, contraception, abortion, NFP [Natural Family Planning], sex education, population and the African context, family planning, the education of youth in chastity, Aids, etc.” Read more…
The rape of South Africa
TO DATE, this newspaper has chosen not to comment on the sagas surrounding former Deputy President Jacob Zuma. Virtually everything that could be said about Mr Zuma, in support and in opposition, has been stated, and requires no further analysis here. Read more…
Shake off the apathy
Pope John Paul II was a master at using the mass media in his pontifical mission. Like most 20th century popes, he recognised the value of the Church communicating with the public through the print and electronic media—and of society, especially Catholics, being exposed to (and even involved in) the Church’s discourse. Read more…
Church can’t change back
Until four decades ago, the Catholic Church was a religion of certitude. The Mass was uniformly in Latin with a rigidly prescribed liturgy; clerics commanded an unquestioning subservience from the laity; priests and religious were instantly recognisable by their ecclesiastical garb; other churches were in error, and Jews were still labelled “perfidious”. Read more…
The sad trek of a star’s kidney stone
It is quite alarming how rapidly the gap between rich and poor is widening. And to make matters worse, it seems that the rich are going to far greater lengths to see which of them can find the most ridiculous reasons for getting rid of excess cash in pursuit of keeping up with the Joneses. Read more…
Free speech has limits
MANY Catholics will have empathised with Muslim outrage over Danish newspaper cartoons depicting their prophet Mohammed as a terrorist. Read more…
Praying for an end to never-ending prayers
In our parish the Sunday prayers of the faithful seem to go on for ever. Sometimes there are as many as 15 petitions, all of them long-winded. I lose interest. Isn’t there a rule to control how many petitions there should be? Read more…
