7: Pagan signposting
When Queen Helena, mother of the newly converted emperor Constantine, came to the Holy Land in the first half of...
August 2005
8: Jesus HQ in Jerusalem
The Mount of Olives was to Jesus’ times in Jerusalem what the north-western shore of the Sea of Galilee was...
9: Where Mary was born
When we think of Mary at the time of the Annunciation, we may well imagine a young country girl, perhaps...
10: Simon Peter, just like us
Spare a thought for poor Jesus as he pondered whom among his disciples he should pick as the rock on...
11: Why was Jesus killed?
The inevitable centrepiece of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land is the Via Dolorosa, the Stations of the Cross more...
A Catholic Woodstock
Next week, the world’s Catholic youth will celebrate their faith in Cologne, host city of this year’s World Youth Day...
The effects of abuse
South African Catholics will have been dismayed to learn on national television news that a Catholic priest has been charged...
