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Spread the Good News
When Christ sent out his apostles to evangelise the world, the means of communication were their powers of verbal persuasion. In loud market places—often literally—they were able to make themselves heard with the Good News.
31 August – 6 September, 2011
Headlines
» Four-Page supplement on World Youth Day ’11
» The Internet as a parish
» How does God punish criminals?
» Radio Veritas’ big Facebook success
» Two pages of book reviews
This Week’s Editorial
Spreading the Good News
Can Africa escape its misery?
By Raymond Mwangala OMI
In May 2000, the cover page of The Economist proclaimed Africa a “hopeless continent”. Such negative and controversial characterisations of the continent are not unique. Africa has been called a “basket case” and “dark continent”, both in reference to its people and also because of a lack of knowledge of the continent by Westerners before. Although knowledge of the continent and its peoples is now widely available and easily accessible, negative sentiments towards the continent remain widespread. But if Africa is a “basket case”, then Africans must shoulder some responsibility for that.
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Navigating the church pew
There is nothing that appeals more to my innate sense of laziness than receiving e-mails from fellow Catholics who are able to put profound pen to paper and produce the perfect subject for this column.
Praying in the Congo
BY PULENG MATSANENG
In June I travelled to Congo for an Apostleship of Prayer meeting in which representatives from 17 different African countries took part. It was my first visit to Congo, and my arrival was special—one of my highlights.
The comfort of silence
I have always had this need for silence. It’s more like a need for isolation, not necessarily physical isolation, but mental or spiritual isolation. In my youth I even thought I would end up becoming a contemplative monk.
24 August – 30 August, 2011
Headlines
» Robbers attack bishop at home
» The Bible and the Catholic faith
» World Youth Day can help vocations
» How The Beatles got love wrong
» Navigating the church pew
This Week’s Editorial
Follow the word
17 August – 23 August, 2011
Headlines
» SA man behind 2012 Olympic’s pastoral care
» Diocese asks: ‘Why Catholic?’
» Catholic yoga to enhance prayer
» Parish of the Month from Klerksdorp
» Chris Moerdyk’s dose of best medicine
This Week’s Editorial
The primacy of race
The Dutch Reformed teach us a lesson: we are in a theological desert
The University of the Free State (UFS) in Bloemfontein has been in the news often in the last few years, most times for the wrong reasons. For many in South Africa it conjures up memories of apartheid, it was of one of the old bastions of the system. It is a place where one expects to hear Afrikaans and to encounter traditional conservative thought which would be less inclined to dialogue with “outsiders”. This would be a reasonable expectation especially in the theology faculty which produced many Dutch Reformed Clergy during the apartheid years. Memories, images and assumptions about “how things used to be” can be wrong and, at worst, very debilitating. Read more…
Saint’s family lives in South Africa
From Andre Martinaglia, Cape Town
Few people know that relatives of St Alphonsus de Liguori, founder of the Redemptorist order, live in Boshoek, Rustenburg (whose diocese is headed by a Redemptorist, Bishop Kevin Dowling).
