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After Edmund – Hello
CD REVIEW
After Edmund’s debut album positions this Georgia-based group into the Christian alt.rock genre occupied by the likes of Switchfoot. Unlike Switchfoot, After Edmund (named after a character in The Chronicles Of Narnia) is not likely to cross over into the mainstream to join the likes of Yellowcard or Jimmy Eats World. Read more…
How to give the laity a greater say
In her column “Lay Leaders Arise” (January 16-22), Toni Rowland discussed a proposed lay leadership structure, asking readers to “let us have their ideas as to how they see this evolving, and how family life and its issues will be incorporated”. Read more…
Pledging loyalty
The idea of invigorating young South Africans with high standards of personal and social integrity must be welcomed. The government is mistaken in believing, however, that its proposed introduction of a pledge of loyalty to the Constitution in public schools will accomplish this admirable objective. Read more…
The enduring miracle of Lourdes
One hundred and fifty years ago this month, on February 11, 1858, a 14-year old French girl, Bernadette Soubirous, saw another girl about her own age smiling at her. She was surrounded by a bright light and was “beautiful”. Read more…
Couples, be friends
I did not choose to focus on marriage during Lent because of seeing marriage as a penance, although it can well be.
I also did not choose to have a marriage focus and celebrate only with good couples and happy marriages. As World Marriage Day, a Marriage Encounter initiated celebration, fell on the 1st Sunday of Lent those who prepared the liturgy suggestions looked at the penitential aspect, the need for reconciliation in marriage and around marriage. Read more…
Mastering one’s self
Archbishop Buti Tlhagale of Johannesburg, in his chairman’s address to the Southern African bishops at their January plenary session, summed up in a single phrase the content of his message. Read more…
Piddling in Tuscany
Having always enjoyed all those wonderful stories of Catholicism in France from the erudite pen of Owen Williams and of course Günther Simmermacher’s series on his travels through the Holy Land, I am not able to resist putting in my five cents worth about another part of the world that appeals to the Catholic in me.
It is Italy. And more particularly Tuscany. A place where, in spite of my heritage having no Italian connection whatsoever, I feel comfortably at home and very much alive in both body and spirit. Read more…
Mystic Street
MYSTIC STREET: Meditations on a Spiritual Path, by ST Georgiou. Novalis , Canada , 2007. 305pp (with illustrations).
Reviewed by Michael Shackleton Read more…
Team of Elders – Bishop Fritz Lobinger
TEAMS OF ELDERS: Moving Beyond “Viri Probati”, by Bishop Fritz Lobinger. Claretian Publications, 2007. 94pp.
Reviewed by Michael Shackleton Read more…
Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Harper Perennial, 2007. 433pp.
Reviewed by Chris Chatteris SJ Read more…
