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 […]
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Perspectives Sebothoma
South Africa still needs healing
If there is a topic I try avoid, it is racial animosity or racism. My heart bleeds every time I
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Editorials 2007
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
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Perspectives
I declare war on blinks and bings
Lately I have been wondering whether heaven takes into account the enormous additional stresses human beings have to endure as
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Editorials 2007
The Wielgus affair
Eyebrows will be raised by the news that Polish Archbishop Stanislaw Wielgus has withdrawn a statement signed by him on
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Books Reviews
Creators – Paul Johnson
CREATORS: From Chaucer to Walt Disney, by Paul Johnson. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London. 2006. 310 pp. Reviewed by Chris Chatteris
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Editorials 2007
Climate change: the end of the world?
At every Mass we praise God as we say: “Heaven and earth are full of your glory.” This month we
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Editorials 2007 Lent
Our Lenten Journey
As the Church prepares for the season of Lent, many Catholics will be deciding what habit or comfort to give
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Editorials 2007
Laity wants to be heard
The parishioners of Rosebank, Johannesburg, who in their concern for the future of priestly vocations compiled the discussion document “Priests
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