March 2007

The youth needs a voice

We want to win our children for Christ.” This is the mission statement displayed prominently inside an Anglican church in Athlone, Cape Town.

Kutless – Live from Portland

CD REVIEW Recorded in their hometown in Oregon, this live album (which comes with a bonus DVD) offers a fair retrospective of Christian rock group Kutless’ four...

The lessons of Iraq

Four years ago, military forces led by the United States and Britain invaded Iraq, a sovereign country, in defiance of international law and on pretexts that even...

Why I need Station 15

Is there such a state as demoralisation? If so, that is what I am suffering from at the moment, at this stage of Lent. I have not...

Brooke Fraser – Albertine

CD REVIEW Singer-songwriter Brooke Fraser, an All Black’s daughter, is currently New Zealand’s second-best selling homegrown talent (after Hayley Westenra) — and her second album shows why....

The fight on crime

Complaining about crime is becoming South Africa’s favourite pastime. Even if crime rates are dropping, as the authorities claim, it is not difficult to see why this...

The Quality of a Homily

I am disillusioned by the quality of the homilies at our Sunday Masses. I’m told that the Vatican has instructed that homilies must explain the Scripture readings...

The Church’s political brain

A little more than ten years ago, the bishops of Southern Africa took a prudent decision when they established the Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office (CPLO). February marked...