Families on the ball
As I am writing this column we have just celebrated the feast of the Baptism of Jesus. What happened right...
January 2010
Art for faith’s sake
By John Cowan Many people say that religious art needs some serious updating — and the president of the Vatican’s...
Nail on the head
Fr Kevin Reynolds, Pretoria: As usual, your editorial ”The preaching problem” (January 13-19) hit the nail on the head. It...
The great transition
Twenty years ago on February 2, President FW de Klerk formally pronounced the death of the apartheid system with his...
Don’t blame advertising for your kids
All over the world, advertising stands accused of turning children into moneygrubbing, materialistic little monsters. Scores of pressure groups, do-gooders...
Kicking up dust, wrestling with myself
In the dying days of 2009, I ventured to make a few resolutions for the New Year. Isn’t the birthday...
St Christopher is alive and well
From Fr Johan Strydom, Plettenberg Bay: They say that St Christopher is no more. As the parish priest of St Christopher parish...
Church in the margins
Archbishop Vincent Nichols Of Westminster is right when he compares the dogmatic stridency of some secularists with that of “the...
The sisterhood of the Mother of God
By Colleen Constable On January 1 we observed the feast of Mary, Mother of God. In his homily the priest...
