2010

Year-end Review 2010

It was the year when South Africa hosted the football world as well as the relics of St Therese of Lisieux, the clerical abuse scandal exploded again...

Music for the masses

From Barbara Gregory, Johannesburg In response to Fr Chris Townsend’s opinion article “Why I Hate Catholic Music” (December 15), I am, with respect, happy that he is...

Our prayers for 2011

Poverty remains the greatest threat to peace in South Africa. The recent food riots in Mozambique, experts warn, could be replicated in South Africa, possibly fuelled by...

Look before you leap

As the year draws to a close many of us will probably be thinking ahead to 2011 and praying as hard as we can for our political,...

Christmas Blessings to all!

To all my readers, I wish you the gifts of this Holy Season and a year of peace.  More reflections on the church, life in South Africa...

Apology to the Holy Father

From Aideen Gonlag, St Michaels-on-sea, Kwa-Zulu Natal Some six months ago in the midst of the sex abuse controversy in the Church and what appeared to be...

A new mission

Pope Benedict dominated headlines in the secular and Catholic press in 2010. Some of these were welcome, while others most certainly were not.

Put Christmas back into the world

Following years of paranoid political correctness by countries and companies falling over themselves to not offend non-Christians at Christmas-time, sanity has prevailed quite spectacularly in both Britain...

Why I hate Catholic music

BY FR CHRIS TOWNSEND Oh joy! Recently I read a blog by one James Macmillan about Catholic music which made me want to jump and dance and...