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In this Sunday’s Gospel reading we hear Jesus’ injunction that the bond of marriage entered into freely under God is indissoluble. Challenged by the theologians of his...
In this Sunday’s Gospel reading we hear Jesus’ injunction that the bond of marriage entered into freely under God is indissoluble. Challenged by the theologians of his...
My first reaction to the comments to changes in the English liturgy was to wonder why, since the changes were so minimal. We bishops did painstakingly go...
by Chris Moerdyk · Published September 27, 2009 · Last modified February 22, 2010
While it may be true that research often shows journalists to be languishing somewhere in between car salesmen and lawyers near the bottom of the list of...
by Mphuthumi Ntabeni · Published September 27, 2009 · Last modified September 18, 2009
I went to Sunday Mass under the clasps of melancholy. Prayer failed, or at least failed to be directed by my intentions. Our new priest with his...
I was to have been the reader at my parish church for the Saturday evening Mass of August 22 (21st Sunday). However, I found the second reading...
by Editor · Published September 23, 2009 · Last modified January 30, 2022
Not long before his death in 2005, Pope John Paul II imparted on Africa, a continent he loved, a final gift by announcing a second Synod for...
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published September 21, 2009 · Last modified November 24, 2021
GUARDIAN OF THE LIGHT: Denis Hurley Renewing the Church, Opposing Apartheid, by Paddy Kearney. KwaZulu-Natal University Press, Scottsville. 2009. 382pp. Reviewed by Gunther Simmermacher In a lighter...
by Chris Moerdyk · Published September 20, 2009 · Last modified September 14, 2009
Pretoria in the 1950s, and a young Catholic boy is tied up in a Jacaranda tree by none other than the future apartheid foreign minister, Pik Botha.
by Emmanuel Ngara · Published September 20, 2009 · Last modified December 22, 2009
One day I went to a Receiver of Revenue office to complain about how ruthlessly I had been taxed. I thought that while the extent to which...
Your editorial “Martyrs or terrorists” (August 26) relating to the memorial service for Coline Williams and Robert Waterwitch refers.
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