Mass readings July 1 – July 8
Year B, Weekdays Year 2 Sunday, July 1, 13th Sunday of the Year Wisdom 1: 13-15, 2: 23-24, Psalms 30:...
June 2012
Book explains mysterious topic of relics
HOLY BONES, HOLY DUST: How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe, by Charles Freeman. Yale University Press. 2011. 270...
Study of martyrs’ bones reveals ancient lives
BY MARNIE McALLISTER LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (CNS)—A team of researchers has been studying the skeletal remains of martyrs kept in reliquaries...
Equip our children properly in the faith!
From John Lee, Johannesburg Many thanks for the excellent editorial of June 6, “Are Catholic Schools still Catholic?”. Many Catholics...
Evangelisation by love
The defining theme for the Church in 2012 and the year after will be the New Evangelisation, a project initiated...
Centre of all things
BY HELEN?NTABENI As last month’s controversy over the painting “The Spear” showed, art can sharply divide opinions. HELEN?NTABENI reflects on...
What we can do to get back to morals
BY ANTHONY GATHIMBIRI The moral breakdown in schools is one of the thorny issues in our society today. Speaking with...
All kinds of Christian love
One of the distinguishing features of the early Christians which I discussed last month was the fact that they loved...
An alternate economy
From Finbarr Flanagan OFM, Pretoria Father Bonaventure Hinwood (May 30) asks for suggestions for ending poverty and hunger, but only...
