June 2012

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: 2, 4-6, 11-13, 2 Corinthians 8: 7,...

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 pp. ISBN: 9780300125719 Reviewed by Nancy L...

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 at a Louisville Catholic church, and so...

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 are concerned regarding the apparent disparity between...

Evangelisation by love

The defining theme for the Church in 2012 and the year after will be the New Evangelisation, a project initiated by Pope John Paul II and now...

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 another painting which in its time drew...

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 one another. The apostles taught them to...

An alternate economy

From Finbarr Flanagan OFM, Pretoria Father Bonaventure Hinwood (May 30) asks for suggestions for ending poverty and hunger, but only good economics can do this. In April...