7: Pagan signposting
When Queen Helena, mother of the newly converted emperor Constantine, came to the Holy Land in the first half of […]
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Pilgrimages
Pilgrimages
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
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Pilgrimages The Holy Land
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
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Pilgrimages The Holy Land
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
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Pilgrimages
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
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Editorials 2005
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
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Editorials 2005
The effects of abuse
South African Catholics will have been dismayed to learn on national television news that a Catholic priest has been charged
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