Confirmation before marriage
A priest told me that the previous reception of the sacrament of confirmation is no longer a prerequisite for a...
August 2009
And you think YOU have failings?
Many years ago, when I was running an advertising agency, a very wise client of mine in the pest control...
His, hers and theirs
No, I am not talking of blended or reconstituted families with his children, her children and their children making a...
Preventing abortion – how you can help
Abortion, so abhorrent to many, is seen as part of the liberation of women in many parts of the world....
A new translation of the Old Testament
THE OLD TESTAMENT: A Translation of the Septuagint. Volume 3: The Wisdom Literature. By Nicholas King. Kevin Mayhew, Suffolk. 2008....
A walk through a full life
MEANDERING, by Petal Mary O’Hea. Self-published. 2008. 141pp. Reviewed by Michael Shackleton
The rape of South Africa
A nation in which one in four women can expect to be raped in her lifetime is desperately failing its...
Seeing God in Kenya’s wild
At a dinner party recently, talk turned to what sort of experience could make an atheist believe in God. It...
