Think about the Eucharist
At the heart of the Catholic Church is the celebration of the Eucharist, when the faithful are united in the partaking of Christ truly present. Pope John...
September 2004
Genocide in Africa
The names of Hitler, Amin, Stalin, Saddam, Milosevic are analogous with state-sanctioned mass murder. Do you know the name of Sudan’s president? Omar el-Bashir came to power...
How many frequent flyer miles to heaven?
Having lunch a month or so ago with James Clarke of The Star, long time colleague and doyen of South African humour writers, the subject of charity...
Corruption is the enemy
The health of a democracy can be judged by the extent of the corruption it permits. If statistics are anything to go by, then South Africa is...
The right to object
At a time when apartheid made its last stand in the late 1980s, increasing numbers of young white men refused to be conscripted into the South African...
After the Locust
AFTER THE LOCUST: Letters from a Landscape of Faith. Edited by Denise Ackerman. David Philip, Cape Town. 2003. 180pp Reviewed by Michail Rassool
Hans Küng: My Struggle for Freedom
MY STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM, by Hans Küng. Translated by John Bowden. Continuum, London, 2003. 478 pp Reviewed by Paddy Kearney
The full story
Hands up if you have experienced being confronted by a colleague, an acquaintance, or even a fellow Catholic with an inaccurate or false statement about the Catholic...
Umzimkulu: 10 years, and still no new shepherd
Umzimkulu means palace or mansion. If names mean anything, Umzimkulu is supposed to refer to decor, royalty and style combined. The place of that name, in KwaZulu-Natal,...
