For better or worse
In this Sunday’s Gospel reading we hear Jesus’ injunction that the bond of marriage entered into freely under God is...
September 2009
Surprised at liturgy reaction
My first reaction to the comments to changes in the English liturgy was to wonder why, since the changes were...
45 great life lessons
While it may be true that research often shows journalists to be languishing somewhere in between car salesmen and lawyers...
However low you feel, go to Mass
I went to Sunday Mass under the clasps of melancholy. Prayer failed, or at least failed to be directed by...
Such Sexism in Mass reading
I was to have been the reader at my parish church for the Saturday evening Mass of August 22 (21st...
Africa’s Church in focus
Not long before his death in 2005, Pope John Paul II imparted on Africa, a continent he loved, a final...
Hurley bio: A full life of love
GUARDIAN OF THE LIGHT: Denis Hurley Renewing the Church, Opposing Apartheid, by Paddy Kearney. KwaZulu-Natal University Press, Scottsville. 2009. 382pp....
God doesn’t turn away from us
Pretoria in the 1950s, and a young Catholic boy is tied up in a Jacaranda tree by none other than...
Lesson from a tax office
One day I went to a Receiver of Revenue office to complain about how ruthlessly I had been taxed. I...
