2005

Year-end Review 2005

JANUARY 2005 Following an apostolic visitation to the diocese of Eshowe, the Vatican rules that controversial Sr Priscilla Dlamini remain as head of Holy Cross hospice. Iraqi...

Our prayers for 2006

AS we enter a new year, we pause to reflect on the often dramatic 2005 which brought changes, trauma and some graces. For Catholics, it was the...

Religious freedom for all

Forty years ago, the Second Vatican Council decreed that everyone has an inviolable right to religious freedom. In the declaration Dignitatis humanae, the council fathers finally repudiated...

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 Christmastime. What on earth for? Nothing could...

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 children who act so earnestly in them....

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 light. There would be good pickings in...

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 fishing village, no more than 150 inhabitants,...

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 holy night, Jesus Christ the infant God/man...

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 finally been released. The unwieldily titled “Instruction...

Jesus – A Kingdom Without Frontiers

Reviewed by Gunther Simmermacher Produced by Italian TV station RAI, the first two DVDs in this animated series for children follow gospels of Luke 1-2, and Matthew 2. Plausibly...