Every Christian has a role to play in the Church
Continuing with St Paul’s vision of the Church, this column in the series focuses on every Christian’s responsibility. Paul uses a number of symbols to describe the...
Continuing with St Paul’s vision of the Church, this column in the series focuses on every Christian’s responsibility. Paul uses a number of symbols to describe the...
BY BR SIMEON BANDA FMS Earlier this year eight Sisters of the Immaculate Conception congregation made their profession in Matola in Lichinga diocese in Mozambique, where I...
The rosary is central to Catholic prayer life. Dominican BROTHER DAMAZIO NGOMA explains the benefits of praying the rosary, its mysteries and why the rosary must not...
Releases for March 26, 2012 Salmon Fishing in the Yemen By Joseph McAleer, Catholic News Service Talk about a fish out of water story! A sheik wants...
From Jean de Dieu Kayinamura, Johannesburg The modern society we live in is characterised by self-centred attitudes, isolation and protectionism towards outside world and strangers. Among those...
I regularly read the excellent online “newspaper” Daily Maverick. Many of the articles are thought provoking, and although I disagree with some of the conclusions, they certainly...
Excerpt from our front-page story by CLAIRE MATHIESON this week: President Jacob Zuma should use a presidential prerogative to send the Protection of State Information Bill to...
Hope&Joy / Mathieson / Perspectives
by Claire Mathieson · Published April 25, 2012 · Last modified October 28, 2013
Pope John Paul II wrote in his encyclical Ut Unum Sint (1995) that the building of a better world requires Christians to speak with a united voice...
The state of vocations to the priesthood in South Africa has yet to reach the point of crisis experienced in Western Europe and, to a lesser extent,...
This month’s column is about music and noise and celebration this time, as you will see. I don’t believe it is normally appropriate to blow one’s own...
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