Detox your soul on a local pilgrimage
By Sr Joanne Petersen ISSM For most of us, December 16 is a very welcome break and signals the start of some serious holiday time. Certainly, getting...
December 2009
Shadows and light
By Fr Ralph de Hahn What we see and live each day is not the ultimate reality. This world has developed a concept of reality that excludes...
A Vuvuzela Liturgy
A vuvuzela liturgy? Does this mean that vuvuzelas accompanied the choir? No, I use this term to describe the incredible volume of the priest’s voice at the...
Gandhi’s racist past
I’ am dismayed by your report “Gandhi’s Satyagraha similar to the Gospel” (October 28) which quotes Fr Noel Peters OMI as saying that there were many similarities...
A couple of Christmas lessons
Round about this time every year, I dedicate my column to putting Christ back into Christmas. Something that I feel seems to be missing in more and...
Constructing the highway to Christmas
We have all heard the expression “Let’s put Christ back into Christmas!” This is exactly what is happening in a Pretoria parish that is made up of...
More biographies of Christmas carols
GUNTHER SIMMERMACHERÂ explores the history of some more popular Christmas hymns and songs. O Little Town Of Bethlehem In 1865, the 29-year-old American Episcopalian (US Anglican) minister Phillips...
Why I am a virgin
My virginity is not a cheap part of my life (body) to be lost by anyone just for a few minutes of pleasure. For me, being a...
In the Darkest Hours
Catholics are rightly shocked by the report of abuses committed against minors by priests and the handling of allegations of such offences in the archdiocese of Dublin....
