My father is gone, but he lives on
I did not expect my father to go so soon. Even now I don’t know how to describe my feelings. Though my family and acquaintances perceive me...
by Mathibela Sebothoma · Published August 27, 2008 · Last modified September 1, 2009
I did not expect my father to go so soon. Even now I don’t know how to describe my feelings. Though my family and acquaintances perceive me...
Women and the Church / Your Letters
by admin · Published August 27, 2008 · Last modified June 30, 2017
Tony Meehan, Cape Town – Â Fr Remo Bonifazi was shocked (Anti-Catholic, letters July 23-29) by your editorial of July 2-8, which speculates that one day the ministerial...
By John Galloway OMI The response of most Catholics to Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical Humanae vitae was probably that this simply is not a practical or...
Less than a century ago, it was considered indecent for a woman to bare her ankles. Today, as fashions have changed, bare ankles are the least of...
by Michael Shackleton · Published August 20, 2008 · Last modified October 13, 2008
We shake hands at Mass with all sorts of people. Then the sacred host is put in the same hands and we put it into our mouths....
by Emmanuel Ngara · Published August 20, 2008 · Last modified September 1, 2009
What happens when an adventurous Irish young man travels to South Africa and suddenly finds himself face to face with a beautiful Afrikaans-speaking girl? Well, all cultural,...
Bishop Edward Risi OMI, in his column “A better Mass” (July 9-15) asks: “What makes the Mass we celebrate today better than the Mass as we knew...
South African politicians, like their counterparts elsewhere, have a way of missing the point. This failing reached a spectacular culmination when the provincial government of Gauteng argued...
TOWARDS THE LIGHT: Hope in the Face of Depression, by Jeanne Els. Lux Verbi BM, Wellington. 2008. 224pp. Reviewed by Günther Simmermacher
by Mphuthumi Ntabeni · Published August 13, 2008 · Last modified September 1, 2009
Barack Obama positioned himself to be a mesmerising bridge builder as far back as 2004, when he was handpicked by then US presidential candidate John Kerry to...
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