Ancestors and faith
BY SIMANGALISO MAGUDULELA Members of the United Apostolic Church pray at the divine Fertility Caves deep in the Maluti Mountains […]
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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
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Your Letters
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
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Church
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
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Hope&Joy Perspectives
Mary and our faith
Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary is one of the things that differentiates Catholics from most other Christian denominations. To
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Editorials Editorials 2012
Catholics and Atheists
This week we devote the entire letters page of responses to an atheist who wrote of his disappointing experience of
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Perspectives Shackleton
May Religious Brothers Preach?
Persons conducting a communion service in the absence of a priest need to be trained for their ministry. Does a
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Books
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
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Church
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
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