Strange chance encounters
One of my favourite dinner table conversation pieces is about chance encounters. I find it fascinating that no matter how far from home one travels, somehow one...
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 one when we ourselves have never been...
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 at the relationship between priests and the...
Healing prayer
THE HEALING POWER OF PRAYER, by Thelma Coert. CB Publications, Cape Town. 2010. 76pp. Reviewed by Michael Shackleton This is the autobiography of a Cape Town woman,...
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 directly or in the form of a...
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 book on feminist interpretations of discernment. In...
We are 90
On October 16, 1920, The Southern Cross published its debut edition, featuring a photo and message of Pope Benedict XV on the front-page. This week, one week...
A missionary position
It is, I am told, like Dante’s inferno meets the Fall of the Roman Empire. It takes place every year in South Africa and it is commonly...
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 money for the project came from the...
Becoming independent
The Church in Africa has committed itself to work towards greater self-sufficiency, with a view to eventually becoming fully self-reliant. The goal is a transformation of the...
