Mind how you pray
Sepp Blatter, president of FIFA and the most powerful man behind the football World Cup in South Africa next year, has called for players to stop making...
August 2009
St John Vianney today
By Fr Enrico Parry One of the few things I can do properly in a kitchen is to make soup. What I love about preparing it is...
The priesthood today
By Bishop Stephen Brislin The ministerial priesthood has its foundation in the Priesthood of Christ which therefore forms the starting point for the understanding of priesthood.
Martyrs or terrorists?
This week we are publishing some of the letters we have received in reaction to a memorial service held in Cape Town on the 20th anniversary of...
An end to prostitution
The column by Fr Chris Chatteris “An end to prostitution?” (August 5-11) gives hope for an upturn in our society in which only downward spiralling in the...
Mercy at the heart of priest’s novel
THE BURIAL AND THE ECHO, by Albert Herold. Melrose Books, Cambridgeshire. 2008. 70pp. Reviewed by Michael Shackleton
Entertaining angels: Seeing is believing
ANGELS IN MY HAIR, by Lorna Byrne. Random House, London. 2008. 325pp. Reviewed by Michael Shackleton
How much respect is right?
The first priest to make a lasting impression on my life was Fr Bonner of the Monastery parish in Pretoria. This was during my formative years in...
Laws not enough to fight crime
Mphuthumi Ntabeni’s article in The Southern Cross of 15-21 July and the editorial of the same edition have started an important debate on social values that needs...
More on Mass changes
By Bishop Edward Risi OMI In this article I would like to look at some of the words which the new translation has brought back into the...
