Families on the ball
As I am writing this column we have just celebrated the feast of the Baptism of Jesus. What happened right then with the Holy Spirit descending on...
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 Pontifical Council for Culture agrees with them....
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 naturally reminded me of several lessons taught...
The great transition
Twenty years ago on February 2, President FW de Klerk formally pronounced the death of the apartheid system with his dramatic speech to parliament in which he...
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 and myriad moral custodians of our society...
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 of Jesus Christ and the start of...
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 in Plettenberg Bay, I have to say...
Church in the margins
Archbishop Vincent Nichols Of Westminster is right when he compares the dogmatic stridency of some secularists with that of “the worst religious believer”, a characteristic that allows...
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 referred to the role of women in...
“Reform of the Reform”
The National Catholic Reporter online reported (7 January 2010) that Msgr Guido Marini, the chief papal liturgist, has called for a “reform of the reform” of the...
