Catholic burials for non-Catholics
My non-Catholic wife and I were married by a Catholic priest. Before we married, my wife was diagnosed with an incurable disease, and died two years later....
November 2008
Monks and coffee
In the good old days, Catholic parishes and religious orders used to raise money to pay their bills and lend a helping hand to the poor by...
Approaching Advent with love
When the different departments of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference were asked to make a response to the bishops’ document on healing, I started thinking and...
Reflection on the First of Advent
By Mgr Jan Jaworski …because your redemption is drawing near (Lk 21: 28). Advent marks the coming of a very important person. The word derives from the...
Values in Business
Systems of Values in Business In the so-called Enlightenment Era, an era which is slowly receding in influence, but has no doubt still many firm adherents, only...
Our Catholic heritage slips away
Port Elizabeth diocese recently bade farewell to two wonderful Franciscan Clarist Sisters who until recently ran a retreat centre in the heart of our city. Gone too is...
AIDS: A new strategy
When a decade ago the experts drew up their worst-case scenario for HIV/Aids in Africa, they failed to anticipate the furious extent of the disease. Whatever worst-case...
A Catholic primer
OUR JOY IN BEING CATHOLIC: Our Catholic Customs and Beliefs, by Oswald Hirmer. Mariannhill Mission Press, Mariannhill. 2007. 158pp Reviewed by Michail Rassool
Hollywood’s official religion
CATHOLICS IN THE MOVIES, edited by Colleen McDannell. Oxford University Press, New York. 2008. 362pp Reviewed by Günther Simmermacher
Getting ready for Christmas
The singer Andy Williams would have you believe that it’s the most wonderful time of the year. Yeah, right. Try “stressful”, Andrew. December is a rush, and...
