August 2008

The look of love

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...

How women dress

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...

An exemplary couple

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,...

Church’s new image is rich

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...

SA’s moral obligation

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...

An American vote for hope?

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...