Strange chance encounters
One of my favourite dinner table conversation pieces is about chance encounters. I find it fascinating that no matter how...
October 2010
Growth by suffering and mourning
BY CATHERINE DE VALENCE It is difficult to counsel and comfort someone who has endured the loss of a loved...
Priests must open their eyes
BY CHILEYA MOBA CSSp Most of the Church’s activities are done through the parishes. It is important therefore to look...
Healing prayer
THE HEALING POWER OF PRAYER, by Thelma Coert. CB Publications, Cape Town. 2010. 76pp. Reviewed by Michael Shackleton This is...
Precedent for lay involvement
At Mass in late September we received brochures advertising the newly-created SACBC Foundation, asking us to contribute to it either...
Sorry for the Silent Blog
I am on sabbatical this semester and spent three month in the US and am now back, working on a...
We are 90
On October 16, 1920, The Southern Cross published its debut edition, featuring a photo and message of Pope Benedict XV...
A missionary position
It is, I am told, like Dante’s inferno meets the Fall of the Roman Empire. It takes place every year...
She put in all he had
Some years ago, I was talking to a friend who was running a project. When he told me that the...
