Novena for stressed-out Catholics
9 DAYS TO HEAVEN: How to Make Everlasting Meaning of Your Life, by Teresa O’Driscoll. O Books, 2006. 110pp. Reviewed by...
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African music’s rich traditions
MOVING INTO AFRICAN MUSIC, by Joyce Scott. Pretext, Cape Town, 2009. 136pp (includes 72-min CD with 27 songs) Reviewed by...
How Mass language changed
From John Lee, Johannesburg: History shows that the language used in the Eucharistic Sacrifice over the centuries has followed an...
Crime in South Africa: The Other Side of the Equation
We are accustomed to reading about crime every day, lamenting about it and criticising the police, security companies, and government,...
Violence: We are warned
Over the past few weeks, South Africa has generated a tremendous amount of good will and respect across the world...
All you wanted to know about Jesus
CHRISTOLOGY: A Biblical, Historical, and Systematic Study of Jesus (2nd edition), by Gerald O’Collins SJ. Oxford University Press, 2009. 385pp...
Storming heaven for abuse survivors
From Grace de Lange, East London: In light of the horrendous reports on the sexual abuses I also feel a...
Prediction is not our forte
It doesn’t take more than a cursory glance at popular mass media today to realise that a lot of people...
Jesus the man broke rules
If one looks at the proliferation of books about the historical Jesus of Nazareth, one might observe an apparently widespread...
