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Richness in diversity
When one reads any newspaper, it is understood that the advertisement of a product, service or message—be it for a bank or a political party—does not have the implicit endorsement of the publication’s editor or publisher. Read more…
Anointing the sick
During a healing service at a parish in a South African diocese, the deacon invited and anointed those present with the sacred oil of the sick. This was distressing because the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the Code of Canon Law expressly forbid anyone but a valid priest or bishop from anointing in this way. Was the deacon not perpetuating a false catechesis or can he plead inadvertent misconduct? Read more…
Charm, Honesty, and Humility
Ever since 9/11 and the Enron debacle, consumers in the United States have become increasingly wary of politicians and big business, and have quite clearly been retreating into their already conservative shells.
Now we hear about professional golfers such as US Masters winner Zach Jonson, cutting down on coaching sessions and turning to Bible study meetings before big games. Read more…
Our Lady of Benoni?
The secular media’s fascination with “off-beat” Catholic stories found renewed expression in the coverage of a teenager’s claims of having had apparitions of the Blessed Virgin in Benoni, as we reported last week. Read more…
Donating life
Earlier this month, Dutch television company Endemol caused an international furore over its plans to broadcast a version of the Big Brother reality show in which viewers would vote who of three contestants in need of a kidney transplant would receive an organ donation from a fourth “housemate”, a supposedly mortally ill woman. Read more…
Relient K – Five Score And Seven Years Ago
CD REVIEW
If there is one good reason to but this album, it is the haunting 11-minute epic “Deathbed”, a collaboration with Switchfoot’s Jon Foreman in which a man tells of his life and regrets as he lies dying of lung cancer — a song quite unlike any this Christian outfit has done before. Read more…
Christians in Iraq
Writing in an opinion column in the London Times in late May, outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair expressed his bemusement that Muslims in Iraq (and in Afghanistan) should be angry about the invasion he spearheaded with US President George W Bush, and its bungled aftermath. Read more…
