African Ancestor Beliefs and the Catholic Communion of Saints: Concord or Conflict?
Most if not all Black Catholics within the Archdiocese of Cape Town (ACT), South Africa, pray to their ancestors. Is...
2010
An itinerary for the afterlife
One of the great benefits of our modern world is that international travel is becoming a lot more affordable, thereby...
The forgotten Africa
The blare of vuvuzelas is everywhere, even here in Kenya where we have no real national football to talk about....
Many reasons to donate organs
From Dickon Daggit, Cape Town: I would like to compliment and thank you for your editorial on organ transplants (June...
Mission accomplished
For six years South Africa built up towards hosting the 2010 World Cup, and for the past four weeks much...
Confession can’t be coercive
Bishop Girotti of the Vatican’s Apostolic Penitentiary reportedly said that a priest who confesses sexual abuse should generally not be...
Is confession a thing of the past?
From Marion Jordaan, Pietermaritzburg As I prepare the children of my catechism class for the sacrament of reconciliation before their...
Deeds rather than rhetoric
Perhaps some good can come out of the way in which the Vatican made such a mess of handling sex-abuse...
Let’s keep our own African names
By Br Simeon Banda FSM I was baptised in Chiphaso parish in Kasungu in the diocese of Lilongwe, Malawi. The...
