The Beatles and Christianity
As a Catholic and a Beatles aficionado, I enjoyed reading Günther Simmermacher’s opinion article “John Lennon and Jesus” (December 21) about...
January 2009
The Bible, business and pricing practices
The Mark of the Beast Is the price of a good or service simply the result of supply and demand?...
Banking on faith and wealth
Here’s interesting information with which to start the new year. A study conducted in the United States a while back...
Lessons in God from the mystics
Do you know what goes on in the core of the Trinity? I will tell you. In the core of...
Abraham as a role-model today
Without forgetting contemporary issues completely, this column will this year pay special attention to biblical and Christian role models. The...
Overthrowing Mugabe?
For those truly exasperated by Robert Mugabe’s ruinous misrule of Zimbabwe, the vision of military intervention to effect regime change...
Church long condemned slavery
Dr Vincent Couling’s letter “The Church has changed its tune” (October 15-21), refers. As far back as 585, Church council...
A Protestant view of Mary
JOURNEYING WITH MARY, by Lyn Holness. Lux Verbi.BM, Wellington. 2008. 180pp Reviewed by Anthony Egan SJ
Sex and sensibility
By Michael Cartstens Recent events in the life of the Church have put the spotlight firmly on the question of...
