How SA Church deals with abuse
By Fr Chris Townsend Whenever the Church responds to media reports on the abuse crisis, it is often seen immediately...
2010
Stirring times in Scotland
Playing golf on the famous Open courses of Scotland some years ago was for me in all honesty a sham....
Four chapters and counting
As a Church, we are in the midst of the fourth chapter of the contemporary sexual abuse crisis in the...
Moratorium on Homilies
I have just endured another terrible homily at the liturgy this Sunday. The priest started off well, referring to the...
The domino effect miracle
By Fr Joe Falkiner OP This experience goes back to 1973. In those days in our country black people had...
A new religious charism in Africa
The African Synod II last October proudly marked the growing number of Africans in religious congregations, some whom occupy important...
Wear a ribbon of repentance
from Dorothea Russell, Cape Town As Archbishop Buti Tlhagale of Johannesburg has said, the Church’s credibility is in ruins because of the sexual...
Why Remain a Catholic?
It has not been easy to be a Catholic lately. The scandal of sexual abuse by Church personnel and the...
A battle of memory in the new SA
DANCE OF THE RAIN, by Tom Naude. Heinemann Publishers, Johannesburg. 2009. 142pp. Reviewed by Michael Shackleton
