Spread the Good News
When Christ sent out his apostles to evangelise the world, the means of communication were their powers of verbal persuasion....
August 2011
Can Africa escape its misery?
By Raymond Mwangala OMI In May 2000, the cover page of The Economist proclaimed Africa a “hopeless continent”. Such negative...
Navigating the church pew
There is nothing that appeals more to my innate sense of laziness than receiving e-mails from fellow Catholics who are...
Praying in the Congo
BY PULENG MATSANENG In June I travelled to Congo for an Apostleship of Prayer meeting in which representatives from 17...
The comfort of silence
I have always had this need for silence. It’s more like a need for isolation, not necessarily physical isolation, but...
Saint’s family lives in South Africa
From Andre Martinaglia, Cape Town Few people know that relatives of St Alphonsus de Liguori, founder of the Redemptorist order,...
Follow the word
With past experience as a benchmark, it is likely that Bible Sunday on August 28 will go by unnoticed in...
Here’s a shot of good medicine
My father, a teacher, instilled in his children a love of reading. Not a love of books, mind, but a...
Quiet in Church please
BY COLLEEN CONSTABLE It is with a touch of nostalgia that I remember the advice a professor at one of...
