Benediction downgraded?
I have been told that the modern Church has downgraded the old-style worship of the Blessed Sacrament, such as in Benediction and eucharistic processions, in favour of...
by Michael Shackleton · Published July 30, 2008 · Last modified October 13, 2008
I have been told that the modern Church has downgraded the old-style worship of the Blessed Sacrament, such as in Benediction and eucharistic processions, in favour of...
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published July 30, 2008 · Last modified September 1, 2009
Before I took a wrong turn and stumbled into journalism, I worked for some years in the hotel trade as what may well now be euphemised “hospitality...
By Oskar Wermter SJ One man is ultimately responsible for Zimbabwe’s national catastrophe, though his supporters share in his guilt: Robert Gabriel Mugabe. He told his police...
In the streets of Sydney during World Youth Day, some protesters handed out condoms to passing pilgrims. Reporters later spotted lots of discarded, unopened condom packets a...
IN the 40 years since Pope Paul VI released his encyclical Humanae vitae (Of Human Life), which prohibited the conjugal use of artificial contraceptives, large numbers of...
FOR THE SAKE OF SILENCE, by Michael Cawood Green. Published by Umuzi, Cape Town. 2008. 558pp. Reviewed by Michael Shackleton
By Bishop Edward Adams Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae vitae is almost exclusively linked to birth control. After it was issued 40 years ago this month it...
Last month I endeavoured to show the connection between xenophobia and leadership. This column suggests some long-term strategies for responding to xenophobia. First, there is a need...
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published July 23, 2008 · Last modified July 2, 2020
Pope Benedict’s sartorial stylings have made news recently, in lifestyle magazines and in the Vatican’s newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano. Last year Esquire magazine acclaimed Pope Benedict as a style...
Whenever religious faith is a source of conflict between believers, God’s name is offended. In that light, the potential for schism in the Anglican communion is unfortunate...
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