Year-end Review 2005
JANUARY 2005 Following an apostolic visitation to the diocese of Eshowe, the Vatican rules that controversial Sr Priscilla Dlamini remain...
2005
Our prayers for 2006
AS we enter a new year, we pause to reflect on the often dramatic 2005 which brought changes, trauma and...
Religious freedom for all
Forty years ago, the Second Vatican Council decreed that everyone has an inviolable right to religious freedom. In the declaration...
A gift we don’t deserve
GUEST CHRISTMAS EDITORIAL BY FR EMIL BLASER OP It is a fact that most people expect a Christmas box at...
Nativity play nerves
Nativity plays. Everybody has either been in one or watched one. Sr ROSE POWER of Groblersdal reminisces about nativity plays and the...
Yehonatan and the baby
A short story by Louis Mallett He was street-child of his day, and Yehonatan’s mother had him up at first...
The bell of St Raphael
A short story by Fr Ralph de Hahn Port Raphael, on the Cape’s West Coast, was just a small insignificant...
Time and eternity meet on crossroads
Wherever Christian hearts beat, the holy night of Christmas draws millions together, writes Mgr JAN JAWORSKI. During the silent and...
Gays in the priesthood
After years of leaks, hints and speculation, the Vatican’s instruction on the admission of homosexual men to the priesthood has...
