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 of the almost 20000 South Africans who...
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 tell you, it’s a serious business!
Pray for our youth
From Gillian Tweehuysen, Benoni Our young people will soon be attending World Youth Day with Pope Benedict in Madrid, Spain. I would like to suggest that a...
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 not see. Our group of 45 Southern...
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 serious about addressing the incidence of clerical...
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 when, at the tender age of eight,...
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 up over a few days of living...
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 lead one into temptation. If this is...
Fear Not
In this Easter season, when the Scripture texts tell us of how frightened the disciples were behind locked doors, the Risen Christ comes to reassure them “to...
Knysna parish a blessing
From Ruth and Chris Busschau, Johannesburg In May, while on holiday, we went to the 8:00 Sunday Mass at St Boniface’s church in Knysna. It was so...
