A hiding can be good for kids
I was enormously surprised to see the results of a poll a few weeks ago showing that a massive majority...
May 2011
Ready for the final exam?
Have you ever watched teachers and learners preparing for the matriculation examination, or any General School Certificate examination? Let me...
Pray for our youth
From Gillian Tweehuysen, Benoni Our young people will soon be attending World Youth Day with Pope Benedict in Madrid, Spain....
Part 14: The pilgrim as a tourist
The arbitrariness of air travel itineraries sometimes produce the happy circumstance of allowing travellers to visit places they otherwise would...
Abuse: Church is serious
The Vatican’s new instructions to the world’s bishops’ conferences must be welcomed as another concrete signal that the Church is...
Our homemade mass ended on a violent note
Something for which I will forever be indebted to my long-suffering parents was their ability to keep completely straight faces...
From one hot cross bun to another
I have just washed nine mugs—in the dishwasher—plus a sundry collection of plates, glasses and the odd dish, all built...
Is God leading us into temptation?
The words and lead us not into temptation in the Our Father bother me. It is inconceivable that God would...
Fear Not
In this Easter season, when the Scripture texts tell us of how frightened the disciples were behind locked doors, the...
