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The oxygen of the Church
As living beings, we are always in need of improvement. Likewise, as a living body, the Church is always in need of reform. Read more…
Click OK for forgiveness
A quite remarkable and thoroughly frightening article in the Miami Herald recently told of rapid growth in the United States of “confession” sites on the internet.
According to the report, more and more people are using websites such as ivescrewedup.com and blessmefatherforihavesinned.net (I’m not making this up) to assuage their consciences. Read more…
Bad popes
In accordance with the teaching of the Church we believe that the Holy Spirit governs the Church. Well then, how could Rodrigo Borgia, with a bad reputation, have become Pope Alexander VI? Read more…
Academies of virtue
Over 12 pages in this issue we are looking at just some of the components in Catholic education that set Church schools—independent and public on private property— apart from many of their state-owned counterparts. Read more…
Ads make me see red
Everyone with a TV must be aware of the commercials for the “red tag sale’ for cars of one particular motor group.
There are several of these ads, including the one where the man doesn’t have time to be home much, mixes up his wife’s name with a car’s or forgets his child’s name at baby’s first birthday party. It’s meant to be funny but doesn’t that kind of ad make you mad? Read more…
Mugabe’s ominous threat
The chilling threat by President Robert Mugabe to the bishops of Zimbabwe must be taken very seriously. Read more…
LoveMatters
Reviewed by Michail Rassool
Love Matters is an educational programme on sexuality developed by the Bosco Youth Centre in Randvaal, Gauteng that targets teenagers, and is the Salesian Fathers’ response to the need to prevent teenagers and pre-teens from eventually joining the estimated three in ten South Africans with HIV/Aids. The programme focuses on behaviour change around issues of sexuality; it sets out to influence young people’s value systems, their world perspective and hence their moral responses to the choices they are often faced with. Read more…
Discuss issues so that the ‘listening pope’ may hear
The death of Pope John Paul II was significant in at least two very important respects.
First, it became quite clear that the pope is not just the leader of the 1,1 billion Catholics in the world today. He is now recognised as an important spiritual leader by members of different faiths and by secular leaders of different political persuasions. Read more…
The rights of women
Motherhood is a noble vocation which is rightly celebrated in many parts of the world, including South Africa, in May—the month dedicated to Mary, the mother of Our Lord. Read more…
Murderer at 16?
As a schoolgirl years ago, I had an abortion. At the time it was the only thing to do for me, as I was desperate. Now, although my parish priest has seen to it that I have been forgiven for my sin, I have many feelings of unhappiness and deep regret. Was I really a murderer, though I was only 16 at the time? Will I meet my unbaptised child in heaven? Read more…
