Here’s an argument to liven up your Sunday lunch
Every now and then, I delve into my high-tech database—just a cardboard box with the lid held down by an...
2007
Lessons from an allegation
This newspaper received a flood of letters in the wake of reports about an allegation of sexual abuse against the...
How I believe
The number one bete noire of all religious converts is the question: So, what made you convert? Usually people who...
Road-rage in the traffic jungle: I have a cunning plan
One of the great sins of the modern era surely is road rage. I haven’t gone beyond venial sin territory...
War on human trafficking
Efforts by a group of women religious in 26 countries to tackle the distressing problem of human trafficking must be...
A month for kids
Did you know that November 1 is National Children’s Day? Maybe by the time this column gets to press there...
Eerie army of children brought hardened soldiers to their knees
IT started out as a bright and sunny day in the early 1960s, on the Congolese shore of what was...
Crime: Who is to blame?
The archbishop of Johannesburg is a thoughtful man, not given to impetuous statements. So Archbishop Buti Tlhagale’s uncompromising address at...
Feast of All Ancestors
I was visiting a family from our parish for a prayer. At the conclusion of the litany of the saints,...
