May 2007

The oxygen of the Church

As living beings, we are always in need of improvement. Likewise, as a living body, the Church is always in need of reform.

Click OK for forgiveness

A quite remarkable and thoroughly frightening article in the Miami Herald recently told of rapid growth in the United States of “confession” sites on the internet. According...

Academies of virtue

Over 12 pages in this issue we are looking at just some of the components in Catholic education that set Church schools’ independent and public on private...

Ads make me see red

Everyone with a TV must be aware of the commercials for the red tag sale for cars of one particular motor group. There are several of these...

Mugabe’s ominous threat

The chilling threat by President Robert Mugabe to the bishops of Zimbabwe must be taken very seriously. In an interview with London’s New African magazine, Mr Mugabe...

LoveMatters

Love Matters is an educational programme on sexuality developed by the Bosco Youth Centre in Randvaal, Gauteng that targets teenagers, and is the Salesian Fathers’ response to...

The rights of women

Motherhood is a noble vocation which is rightly celebrated in many parts of the world, including South Africa, in May the month dedicated to Mary, the mother...