A black fast?
From Tony Meehan, Cape Town: Jesus once whipped wrongdoers from the temple; so should our Holy Father do the same regarding sexual abuse in the Church?
April 2010
Brief encounter with opulence
Take two very ordinary words: “orient” and “express”, and when you string them together you get something entirely out of the ordinary: Visions of opulent, old-fashioned trains,...
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 lack of access to basic things...
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, Minnesota. 2007. 205pp Reviewed by Paddy Kearney
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 me what I have observed in many...
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 massive selection of patron saints that they...
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 for Catholics, especially when the coverage is...
Christian struggle for justice recalled
JOURNEYING FOR JUSTICE: Stories for an Ongoing Faith-based Struggle. Jive Media, Pietermaritzburg. 2009. 144pp. Reviewed by Chris Chatteris SJ
How the rules for sainthood changed
It is my understanding that in the early days of the Church there was no such thing as a cause for canonisation of the saints. Saints became...
Believing beyond seeing
Mankind’s propensity to believe in perception rather than truth never ceases to amaze me. Certainly, the media and communications industries are frequent victims to perception playing a...
