A priest found the big bang
From Patrick Dacey, Johannesburg Because of differing timescales that had been allocated to Genesis’ creation story, Bishop Usher, a 17th...
March 2012
Now faiths can work together
When in 1965 the assembled bishops of Vatican II with an overwhelming majority affirmed Nostra Aetate, the Declaration on the...
Worthy of Christ’s Love
During Holy Week, in our readings and our prayers and in the Stations of the Cross, we witness the single...
Getting to work in the family
Since 1995 South Africans have celebrated Human Rights Day on March 21, in memory of the Sharpeville anti-pass law protests...
It is time to set the poor free
BY UDE EMMANUEL ENYINNAYA Those capitalists, politicians and others who claim to represent the poor but get salaries and allowances...
Nine reasons why I love the rosary
By Jean Paige – There is a beautiful poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) titled, How Do I Love Thee?...
Are we using the right bible?
From Fr Wojciech Szypula SVD, Department of Theology, St Augustine College, Sr Judith Coyle IHM, Senior Lecturer & Coordinator: Pastoral...
The new nuncio
Since the departure in December by Archbishop James Green, the former apostolic nuncio to the Southern African region, local Catholics...
Where can one find the Tridentine Mass?
Since the Vatican instruction Summorum pontificium permitting the Tridentine Mass, what is the position of the Southern African bishops? Where can one...
