March 2011

A passion for the Lord’s prayer

From: Loz Hayden, Broederstroom, Gauteng Michael Shackleton’s Open Door article, Clarifying doxology (February 16) responds to the question: Why do we say the doxology of the Lord’s...

A time for Catholic radio

Catholics in many countries across Africa take it for granted that they have access to a radio station that communicates their faith. Indeed, some African countries have...

Tooth mugs and justice

I recently spent some time at two very different locations: one a retreat centre (lovely setting but pretty basic), the other a beautiful four-star holiday resort with...

The sacrament of unity

BY MGR PAUL NADAL One of the most important things to come out of the Second Vatican Council was the Church’s understanding of herself.  According to Lumen...

Your personal saviour and mine

From: John Lee, Johannesburg A happy, recent development in our priests’ homilies (and in Pope Benedict’s talks) is the frequency with which reference is made to the...

Reverence at Mass

The recent correspondence in this newspaper on the subject of music in the liturgy and the on-going debate about the new translations in the English missal have...

Remember the bad old days

Remember Sundays in the old South Africa with no TV, no sport, shops all closed, minds all closed and the only thing to stop you contemplating suicide...

Priests rarely retire for good

By FR KEVIN REYNOLDS The interesting on-going series of articles on priesthood and ministry by Mgr Paul Nadal got me thinking about a  ministry that one hears...