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In your Christmas issue last December, I read about a large parish in Kenya where the Sunday Mass used to last about three hours. Recently the priest...
In your Christmas issue last December, I read about a large parish in Kenya where the Sunday Mass used to last about three hours. Recently the priest...
Even after 18 years of democracy, issues of race continue to dominate our public discourse – and that can be healthy, provided it aims at redressing the...
BY CATHERINE DE VALENCE There are times when we face the dangers of compromising our faith: by trying to make ourselves more acceptable, by speaking less about...
There are three things that normally distinguish a nation from other nations: its Constitution, its national anthem and its flag. The Constitution is the law that determines...
By Marco Cavagnaro The Seventh World Meeting of Families will take place in Milan from May 30 to June 3, 2012 on the theme The Family: Work...
Releases for May 25, 2012 The Lucky One By John Mulderig, Catholic News Service Ah, how time flies. Wasn’t it only yesterday that we were watching Zac Efron sing...
From Dominic Sam, Port Elizabeth Mario Compagnoni (“A non-believer’s opinion”, April 18) refers: There are three main obstacles to belief which operate within the will: not wanting...
Hope&Joy / Mathieson / Perspectives
by Claire Mathieson · Published May 23, 2012 · Last modified October 31, 2013
Throughout the ages, Christians have been more divided than united. Power struggles, differences on points of theology and sometimes pure expediency have led to the formation of...
In March Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the archbishop of Vienna, was asked to arbitrate in a dispute in an Austrian parish which had elected to its pastoral council...
by Michael Shackleton · Published May 22, 2012 · Last modified November 29, 2013
I have a non-Catholic friend who belongs to a Bible-study group. She believes in what she calls the Rapture. This seems to mean that Jesus Christ will...
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