Ancestors and faith
BY SIMANGALISO MAGUDULELA Members of the United Apostolic Church pray at the divine Fertility Caves deep in the Maluti Mountains...
May 2012
Choose blessings not curses
The apostle Paul writes to the Romans: “Bless your persecutors; never curse them, bless them…Never pay back evil with evil…Never...
Opening the door a chink
From Tom Drake, Johannesburg Mario Compagnoni (“A non-believer’s opinion”, April 18), welcome to the company of seekers: those who are not...
The dangers of your faithful babysitter…
Bringing up children is not an easy task. I am often amazed at the glut of magazines available at any...
Mary and our faith
Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary is one of the things that differentiates Catholics from most other Christian denominations. To...
Catholics and Atheists
This week we devote the entire letters page of responses to an atheist who wrote of his disappointing experience of...
May Religious Brothers Preach?
Persons conducting a communion service in the absence of a priest need to be trained for their ministry. Does a...
Sweeping call for reforms not theology
A LAYMAN’S THEOLOGY, by Bernard Straughan. Coppinger Press, Cape Town, 2011. 132pp. Reviewed by Michael Shackleton In his preface the...
On Ignoring the Sunday Readings
At the liturgy which I attended this past Sunday the priest ignored the readings of the day, including the beautiful...
