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A time to reflect on ash
Lent, the season of repentance, begins on Wednesday, February 6. This is the time to reflect seriously on the words used when the ashes stain our foreheads, namely, that we come from the dust of the earth and will go back there. All our worldly goods, power and attachments will be irredeemably gone. Read more…
Now, where was I with Elijah?
I had often met her at the Company’s Gardens in Cape Town on my way to Mass. Somehow we always almost bumped into each other on the stairs towards Iziko art gallery, and spent a few awkward minutes in the alley between it and Tuynhuis, the official presidential residence. Read more…
Casting Crowns – The Altar And The Door
On their third studio album, Casting Crowns continue in the same vein that rocketed them to superstars in the Christian rock genre. Read more…
A new strategy
WHEN the bishops of Southern Africa meet in late January and early February for their summer plenary session, their agenda will include the question of social communications: the means by which the Church speaks to itself and others. Read more…
Children’s letters to God will put you in the picture
TWO things in life give me immense pleasure. One is the listening to the humour and wisdom that comes from the mouths of babes, and the other is finding some or other hidden treasure on the Internet that allows me to sit back, relax, and let someone else do my writing for me.
The latter is particularly pleasurable just after a holiday when even the simplest task is like climbing Mount Everest backwards with a kitbag full of bricks. Read more…
Atonement for a scandal
The proposal by Cardinal Cláudio Hummes, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, that the Church should seek spiritual renewal through atonement for the scandal involving sexual abuse by some Church personnel must be welcomed. Read more…
Holy Trinity explained
The Trinity is a mystery. I tell this to my confirmation class, and try to explain it. What alarms me is that some have no idea that it means three Persons in one God. Others have thought Jesus is not a Person in the Trinity. It is so easy to say our belief in the Trinity is a mystery. Help me to find a simple way to guide ignorant minds into a clear understanding of this difficult subject. Read more…
By Rampe Hlobo SJ
Last month the world celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Ironically, the United Nations General Assembly adopted and proclaimed the Human Rights Declaration while the National Party government in South Africa was busy enforcing the new rule of apartheid and virtually the whole continent of Africa was under colonial rule. Read more…
What a Marxist liked about Jesus
In my November column I made a brief reference to servant leadership. The question the article asked was how one can be a servant leader and be effective in getting others to act or follow.
Did Jesus say that as a Christian leader you should allow everyone to despise you, spit on you and walk all over you? In an attempt to answer this question, some of the articles in this column will try to give some insight on the leadership style and qualities of Jesus himself. In this article the focus will be on his character. Read more…
Sex work in the shadows
When Jesus ministered to and even socialised with prostitutes, he gave his followers a mandate to aid these most widely reviled women in society. Read more…
