Medical Leave
This blog will be quiet for a few weeks since I will be having a hip replacement operation on 13 February....
2009
The Liturgical Changes
I have been in communication with a friend in the United States, Paul Turner a diocesan priest of the diocese...
Talking gibberish
It is puzzling that the lifting of an excommunication of an individual who intolerably denies the extent of the Holocaust...
It’s Mass essentials that matter
The recent letters and articles submitted by various laity, religious, priests and also bishops that comment on the recent changes...
No time for idling: much work to do
THE editor of the English Communist newspaper The Worker during World War II was Douglas Hyde. Disillusioned with Commu-nism, he...
God’s mercy and Joseph’s paid off
Joseph, son of Jacob, was Abraham’s greatgrandchild. As a teenage boy, Joseph had two strange dreams. In the first dream,...
How it might have been for Jesus on his visit to hell
To say that changes in the liturgy evoked passionate and lively responses from South African Catholics would be putting it...
Mass text betrays Vatican II
by Graham Wilson, Cape Town The odd, ungrammatical English in certain parts of the Mass now in use in South...
Service is holy
The parish is the usual place for Catholics to experience Christ present in his members. It is the local community...
