Funding parties, buying favours
Elections, many argue, are won first in the media, then at the polls. The party that successfully saturates radio, television,...
February 2009
Is Marriage Just About Procreation?
Where can Catholics find the reasoned proof and answer from nature that the primary purpose of the marriage act is...
Bishops on Mass changes
The bishops of the Southern African Bishops’ Conference have been evaluating the response to the implementation of the new English...
Medical Leave
This blog will be quiet for a few weeks since I will be having a hip replacement operation on 13 February....
The Liturgical Changes
I have been in communication with a friend in the United States, Paul Turner a diocesan priest of the diocese...
Talking gibberish
It is puzzling that the lifting of an excommunication of an individual who intolerably denies the extent of the Holocaust...
It’s Mass essentials that matter
The recent letters and articles submitted by various laity, religious, priests and also bishops that comment on the recent changes...
No time for idling: much work to do
THE editor of the English Communist newspaper The Worker during World War II was Douglas Hyde. Disillusioned with Commu-nism, he...
God’s mercy and Joseph’s paid off
Joseph, son of Jacob, was Abraham’s greatgrandchild. As a teenage boy, Joseph had two strange dreams. In the first dream,...
