Polemic in the Church
When Pope Benedict decried what he called “polemics” in the discourse within the Church, he might have been considering his...
March 2009
I am Church too
I am enormously saddened by Cardinal Wilfrid Napier’s article in The Southern Cross of February 18-24 regarding the changes to...
Lent with the patriarchs
ANCIENT TALES FOR MODERN TIMES: Reflections on Abraham and his Children, by Chris N van der Merwe. Lux Verbi.BM, Wellington....
Same-sex marriage and the church
THE CHURCH AND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, by Ron Nicolson. Cluster Publications, Pietermaritzburg. 2008. 74pp Reviewed by Anthony Egan SJ
Detours from the truth
Like most youngsters brought up in a good Catholic home in the 1950s, I had my mouth washed out with...
God’s kind silence
I have always been troubled by God’s silence. I was about 13 when my mother took us for lunch at...
