Are you a ‘Nothing Catholic’
It is estimated that by the year 2050 the whole of Latin (South) America will be Protestant. Once a Catholic continent,...
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A better Mass
By Bishop Edward Risi OMI The liturgy of the Mass as we celebrate it presently is in many respects far...
Letter from my hospital bed
The first time I spent spell in this hospital was for the birth of our youngest child; a happy memory...
The soundtrack of silence
In 1984 a German filmmaker asked the Carthusian grand prior whether he might film the contemplative monks of the order’s...
The women priests debate
The Vatican’s statement last month reiterating that Catholic women who are ordained to the priesthood, and those ordaining them, are...
SA sits on a ticking social timebomb
The spreading cancer of xenophobic attacks, with an opportunistic criminal element clearly taking advantage of people’s frustrations to foster atrocities,...
Fix this!
Pope Benedict places his concern for the world’s hungry at the centre of the Church’s social justice platform. Earlier this...
Poor leadership led to attacks
When I started this column, I argued that leadership is one of the most important issues of our time, and...
Mugabe’s Lost Destiny
The outcome of Zimbabwe’s parliamentary and presidential elections in March took many commentators, including this newspaper, by surprise.
