A journey of healing from grief
ALL IN GOD’S TIME, MY SONS: Reflections on the Death of My Children, by Geoff Moeller. ireadiwrite Publishing. 2010. 141pp Reviewed by Günther Simmermacher
April 2010
How to sort out abuse crisis
Your excellent editorial “The boil must be lanced” of April 7-13 on the abuse crisis refers. Though I applaud efforts made by the local hierarchy to openly...
Stay ‘on-message’
The secular media hold no friendly disposition towards the Catholic Church, and the abuse scandal is such that the Church cannot expect sympathy from the media. What...
Did Christ condemn paedophiles?
Our King James Bible, Matthew 18:5-10 has some strong words, namely, that anyone who shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for...
Pope Benedict XVI in modern society
One of Pope Benedict’s greatest concerns is how the Church relates to an increasingly hostile secular world today. Fr ANTHONY EGAN SJ explains.
Why we go to Mass
From Ed Williams, Muldersdrift People go to Mass for different reasons. The Church says we should go, and that it is a sin not to attend Mass...
My run-in with a most pompous British PM
Harold Wilson, prime minister of Britain and its ever decreasing dominions in the 1960s, would turn in his grave were I not to refer to him as...
Woosh: Helicopter church takes off
One of the newest entrants in Nairobi’s ever expanding “churchscape” has a name that reminds me of a story I heard about Judas Iscariot. The church is...
Our humiliation can help healing
From Bridget Stephens, Cape Town I have heard Kieno Kammies on Cape Talk Radio/702 complaining that The Southern Cross does not report enough about sex abuse in...
Five years of Pope Benedict XVI
As we review this week Pope Benedict’s first five years as supreme pastor of the Catholic Church, we do so acutely aware that his pontificate cannot be...
