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...
April 2010
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...
A black fast?
From Tony Meehan, Cape Town: Jesus once whipped wrongdoers from the temple; so should our Holy Father do the same...
Brief encounter with opulence
Take two very ordinary words: “orient” and “express”, and when you string them together you get something entirely out of...
Justice at the centre of evangelisation
No one living in the world today needs convincing as to how poverty crucifies its victims. It comes mostly in...
The roots of the ‘liturgy wars’
A CHALLENGING REFORM: Realizing the Vision of the Liturgical Renewal 1963 – 1975, by Archbishop Piero Marini. Liturgical Press, Collegeville,...
Respect for holy places
From Fr Severiano Phiri, Taung: The letter of Rosemary Gravenor “We dress our hearts for God” (March 17-23) confirmed for...
A heavenly hotline for almost every problem
By John Cowan In the days long before telephone hotlines and call centres, ordinary people had to cope with a...
Abuse: The boil must be lanced
The relentless focus on revelations of sexual abuse by Church personnel and their cover-up is a constant source of pain...
