Mary’s relevance today
By Colleen Scharnick How relevant are Mary’s virtues in the life of today’s Catholic women? Can today’s women still follow...
December 2008
Pass the sauce
Reflecting on my ramblings last week about the monks in America running a flourishing coffee company, it occurred to me...
Switch off the noise of sin
It is that time of the year again when we are bombarded by images of forced jollity and superfluous commercialism....
Prepare for the ‘decisive baby’
“A little child, a shining star, a stable rude, the door ajar; Yet in that place so crude, forlorn, the...
Where is the prophetic leadership in Zimbabwe?
Our neighbour Zimbabwe appears to be in its real death throes. The health and education systems have collapsed; cholera is...
Reflections on the Second of Advent
By Mgr Jan Jaworski It is time now for you to wake from sleep (Rom 13:11). Advent offers us the...
Guiding the voters
As South Africa’s political parties are launching their election campaigns—and in at least one instance, themselves — the pastoral letter...
New Mass responses raise questions
The new/old responses being reintroduced at Mass raise questions, and Bishop Edward Risi’s commentary on these changes (November 5-11) raises...
The solution to the Aids crisis?
EDUCATION; For an Africa Without Aids, by Michael J Kelly. Paulines Publications Africa, Nairobi. 2008. 232pp Reviewed by Günther Simmermacher
