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For better or worse
In this Sunday’s Gospel reading we hear Jesus’ injunction that the bond of marriage entered into freely under God is indissoluble. Challenged by the theologians of his day, Jesus turns standing teaching on its head and proclaims: “What God has joined together, man must not separate”” (Mk 10:9).
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Surprised at liturgy reaction
My first reaction to the comments to changes in the English liturgy was to wonder why, since the changes were so minimal. We bishops did painstakingly go over the next texts for a few days. Anyway, we voted on all the changes.
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45 great life lessons
While it may be true that research often shows journalists to be languishing somewhere in between car salesmen and lawyers near the bottom of the list of the world’s least trusted professions, there are many newshounds who are able to stand tall among their fellow human beings. There are journalists with insight, honesty and wisdom.
However low you feel, go to Mass
I went to Sunday Mass under the clasps of melancholy. Prayer failed, or at least failed to be directed by my intentions. Our new priest with his heavy accent didn’t help; I hardly heard a word he said. By the time Mass was over, I was stiff with unexplainable anger.
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Such sexism in Mass reading
I was to have been the reader at my parish church for the Saturday evening Mass of August 22 (21st Sunday). However, I found the second reading (St Paul’s letter to the Ephesians 5:21-32) such a personal stumbling-block that I felt obliged to withdraw.
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Africa’s Church in focus
Not long before his death in 2005, Pope John Paul II imparted on Africa, a continent he loved, a final gift by announcing a second Synod for Africa, just a decade and a half after the first. In doing so, Pope John Paul acknowledged that Africa is a dynamic continent caught up in profound change.
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Hurley bio: A full life of love
GUARDIAN OF THE LIGHT: Denis Hurley–Renewing the Church, Opposing Apartheid, by Paddy Kearney. KwaZulu-Natal University Press, Scottsville. 2009. 382pp.
Reviewed by Günther Simmermacher
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God doesn’t turn away from us
Pretoria in the 1950s, and a young Catholic boy is tied up in a Jacaranda tree by none other than the future apartheid foreign minister, Pik Botha.
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Lesson from a tax office
One day I went to a Receiver of Revenue office to complain about how ruthlessly I had been taxed. I thought that while the extent to which I had been taxed was legal, that level of taxation was inhumane and unfair.
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Reactions to martys or terrorists
Your editorial “Martyrs or terrorists” (August 26) relating to the memorial service for Coline Williams and Robert Waterwitch refers.
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