From Sello Mokoka, Pimville It has dawned on me that our Catholic schools have lost their ethos in striving to teach the Catholic faith to our children attending some of our schools and institutions.
Archive | October, 2010
Renewing the spirit of St Francis
Editorial by Sydney Duval The Church is rich in moments of transforming spontaneity, of radical conversion, that continue to touch us as compelling moments of inspiration. The 37th Franciscan Convention at La Verna is a time to draw closer to St Francis of Assisi and his encounter with the leper—to his impulsive act of compassion [...]
The joke is on you
Many years ago when I was in what was then called Standard Five, when schoolchildren were pupils and not learners and peoplehole covers were manhole covers and waiters and waitresses weren’t called waitrons, I got a smart clip behind the ear from a bishop for giggling in church.
What do you see in the mirror?
WHAT do you pray about? Kenyan media recently reported that pandemonium broke out at Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) in Nairobi where thousands of women had turned up to hear a Nigerian pastor. The women packed the KICC auditorium that seats some 10000 people. And there were still many more women shoving and elbowing trying [...]
Tribalism killing dream for African Church
It was a missionary vision of St Daniel Comboni, founder of the Comboni Missionaries, that Africa will be evangelised by Africans. This in turn shaped his missionary activity: to found and sustain local churches so that they can give birth to their own evangelisers.
How do we forgive priests who sin?
Other parishioners and I find it hard to forgive, or even begin to understand how the Lord’s anointed priests can commit such horrific sins as child abuse, while simultaneously carrying out their priestly duties as if they had haloes round their heads. What possessed them to turn their backs on their call to serve God [...]
Pilgrimage 2013
The Digital Southern Cross
