How to count your blessings
This is one of the nicest e-mails of its kind I have ever received. It starts off with the introduction: “I dreamt that I went to heaven...
July 2011
Parable of the sower’s relevance
From Anthony J Sturges, Johannesburg I was amazed at the relevance of the parable of the sower, which we read recently at Sunday Mass, to contemporary Catholic...
Don’t shut the doors
Some years ago The Southern Cross learned of an inmate in a South African prison who decided to convert to Catholicism on account of the newspaper.
Why pre-marital sex is wrong
Young Catholics have little problem accepting that extra-marital sex is wrong because it is a violation of the permanent covenant made between husband, wife and God. But...
A tale of two people
I have two stories to tell you today. They come from a Southern Cross reader who is as good at lifting things off the Internet as I...
St Peter would weep at Church today
There is a lovely story in a devotional booklet called Our Daily Bread about a convert to Christianity who was so perplexed by what she saw in...
Changing sex in the Bible
UNPROTECTED TEXTS: The Bible’s Surprising Contradictions About Sex and Desire, by Jennifer Wright Knust. HarperOne, San Francisco. 2011. 343 pp. Reviewed by Eugene J Fisher
Sex marketing?
From Annabel Horn, Cape Town While praying outside a place of abortion recently, I talked to employees of the clinic who had just given a talk to...
Harry Potter and the Christian connection
The release this month of the final movie in the Harry Potter franchise has revived the inevitable debate about whether adventures of the young wizard encourage young...
The great Catholic contribution to health care in SA
IN THE SERVICE OF HEALING: A History of Catholic Health Care in Southern Africa. Published by CATHCA, Johannesburg. 2011. 128pp Reviewed by Gunther Simmermacher Here is a...
