Hot air blows away the warning signs
Parliamentary opening speeches are much like listening to stories about lemmings jumping off cliff, so I thought I’d consult my...
June 2009
Crime has no rights
In the space of only three months, three priests were murdered in South Africa. Fr Ernst Plöchl CMM of Mariazell...
Slow move from the right
It should come as no surprise that Holocaust-denying Bishop Richard Williamson is a member of the right-wing Society of St...
How the patron saints got their jobs
Ever since I saw my great-aunt Evelina get down on her knees in urgent and desperate supplication to St Anthony...
We are the Church
We’ve heard it before, the saying “We are the Church” — but who and what are we? We might only...
Stealth Taxes
John Ralston Saul labels lotteries ‘stealth taxes’. The economic messianism of globalism has brought sluggish growth and high unemployment and...
Looking to 2010
The kick-off whistle as South Africa’s football team take on Iraq in the opening game of the Confederation Cup on...
Hymns can be God’s language
I rely on hymns to focus my prayer to God. Sometimes the words of hymns seem as if God is...
Don’t fall for old e-mail hoax
An e-mail currently circulating in the Christian community in South Africa warns about a movie called “Corpus Christi”, which portrays...
