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It’s time to fold in the game of race-card poker
I find it immensely saddening that almost 15 years after South Africa became a democracy in which all its citizens were deemed equal, so much emphasis is still placed on skin colour.
Let’s face it, all one needs do is listen in to any radio talk programme and you’ll hear race being used as the cause of everything from crime to bad performance on the sports fields, high cellphone prices, inflation, road rage, Eskom’s woes, SAA’s dismal service and financial performance and indeed any form of blunder, bribery and dodgy goings on you care to mention. Read more…
The parish-hopper in its natural habitat
Since the beginning of the year I had been wondering about her absence in parish life. My anxiety was relieved when I saw her coming up for Holy Communion at a neighbouring parish. Read more…
Zuma as president
Now that the dust is settling over the uncertainties concerning Jacob Zuma’s bid to become South Africa’s next president, the citizens of the country must find a way to live with the ANC president and his followers, if they have not done so already.
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God and the universe
One common thread runs through all aspects of life — the hierarchical structure. From termites to humans, in sport and business, and in religion as well. Read more…
Halloween’s Christian roots
By Fr Desmond Nair
For a lot of people, Halloween has become synonymous with sweets, costumes, scary stuff, witches, ghosts and pumpkins. But do you know the Christian connection to the holiday? Read more…
How the job of spouse is changing
Busi and Sipho are a good Christian couple with three lovely children. Their marriage has been under considerable strain lately and they have decided to see a marriage counsellor, Pastor James. This is an account of what takes place at their first formal session. Read more…
Love the best help for suicidals
The Perspectives column “Suicide is caused by illness, not sin” by Ron Rolheiser OMI (August 13-19) refers.
People who have come to me contemplating suicide were normal people. Almost all had one story in common: that life in this world was painful because they felt they were not loved in the way they expected—by parents, wives, husbands, relatives, church members. Read more…
Why dump Yahweh?
By Dr Richard C. Lux
The recent ruling by the Vatican’s Congregation for Worship and Sacraments on the prohibition of pronouncing God’s name, Yahweh, in liturgy, songs and prayers during Mass must be perplexing to many Catholics. Read more…
Unfriendly suspicions
It is unfortunate that the transfer of the relics of Cardinal John Henry Newman should have produced a slanging match over whether the English 19th theologian was homosexual or not. Read more…
Don’t fear the Reaper
Amid the daily fusillade of spam I receive, one item actually caught my attention: a petition to M-Net demanding it stop screening the Tuesday evening TV series Reaper.
“This week [yes, the petitioners rudely took their time to get around to me] a new programme started on M-Net named The Reaper,” the petition reads, verbatim. “It is about a young man who belongs to Satan and start working for him on his 21st birthday, reaping souls for the devil.” Read more…
