South Africa’s sainthood cause
Pope John Paul has described the saints as people who have “lived an ordinary life in an extraordinary way”. This surely is true of Abbot Francis Pfanner,...
Pope John Paul has described the saints as people who have “lived an ordinary life in an extraordinary way”. This surely is true of Abbot Francis Pfanner,...
Statistics suggesting that half of all children subjected to bullying in schools are likely to develop psychological harm as a result of such harassment should alarm us....
The government’s new proposed policy on religion in education is the fruit of tough negotiations between an education minister instinctively inimical to religion on one side, and...
HOW TO BE A PERFECT STRANGER: The essential religious etiquette handbook (3rd edition). Edited by Stuart M Matlins & Arthur J Magida. Published by Skylight Paths: Woodstock,...
In August, South Africans observe the secular National Women’s Day. Catholics also celebrate their patronal feast day of the Assumption, dedicated to the mother of God. Both...
LIVING WITH SAINTS, by Mary O’Connel. Published by Review, London. 2001. 231pp. Reviewed by Gunther Simmermacher Even the saints occasionally had bad breath to argue otherwise would...
MURDER AT MORIJA, by Tim Couzens. Published by Random House, Johannesburg. 2003. 468pp. Reviewed by Michael Shackleton Here is another contribution to the scholarly record of Southern...
JESUS IN MARK: A teacher for the new century, by Br Mark Colussi. Published by Paulines Publications Africa, Nairobi, 2003. 160pp. Reviewed by Michael Shackleton Mario Colussi...
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