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 century Irish-Protestant bishop, decided to pinpoint the...
From Patrick Dacey, Johannesburg Because of differing timescales that had been allocated to Genesis’ creation story, Bishop Usher, a 17th century Irish-Protestant bishop, decided to pinpoint the...
Hope&Joy / Mathieson / Perspectives
by Claire Mathieson · Published March 28, 2012 · Last modified October 28, 2013
When in 1965 the assembled bishops of Vatican II with an overwhelming majority affirmed Nostra Aetate, the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions,...
During Holy Week, in our readings and our prayers and in the Stations of the Cross, we witness the single most powerful expression of love yet: Jesus’...
Since 1995 South Africans have celebrated Human Rights Day on March 21, in memory of the Sharpeville anti-pass law protests on that day in 1960 when 69...
BY UDE EMMANUEL ENYINNAYA Those capitalists, politicians and others who claim to represent the poor but get salaries and allowances that are more than what hundreds of...
By Jean Paige – There is a beautiful poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) titled, How Do I Love Thee? In it, the poet claims there are...
From Fr Wojciech Szypula SVD, Department of Theology, St Augustine College, Sr Judith Coyle IHM, Senior Lecturer & Coordinator: Pastoral Theology Recently there have been articles in...
Since the departure in December by Archbishop James Green, the former apostolic nuncio to the Southern African region, local Catholics have awaited the announcement of the identity...
by Michael Shackleton · Published March 20, 2012 · Last modified October 9, 2017
Since the Vatican instruction Summorum pontificium permitting the Tridentine Mass, what is the position of the Southern African bishops? Where can one find parishes that celebrate this extraordinary form...
BY REV MIKE KIRBY From our village on the south-east coast of the Eastern Province we get superb sightings of the stars, among which is the Southern...
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