Are Catholic schools still Catholic?
Catholic schools may achieve great academic results, but they must live out a Catholic ethos, according to Bishop Kevin DowlingFor...
June 2012
Future priests on Catholic schools
Where did our priests go to school? CLAIRE MATHIESON went to find out which schools the country’s future priests attended. Among...
Education: What the Church expects
BY MARK POTTERTON Vatican II outlined the purpose of Catholic education and the way it is best achieved—a process that...
Future should be brighter for ‘born frees’
Children who were born in the year of South Africa’s first fully democratic election will write their matric this year,...
Producing great South Africans
Some people criticise Catholic schools for allegedly diluting the very thing that defines them. But while Catholic schools may no...
Are our Catholic schools still Catholic?
There is an increasingly louder refrain which bemoans that Catholic schools are no longer Catholic. Usually the criticism presumes to...
Archaelogy reveals the world of Jesus
JESUS AND HIS WORLD: The Archaeological Evidence, by Craig A Evans. Westminster John Knox Press. 2012. 208pp. ISBN: 9780664234133 Reviewed...
Christ crucified again and again
He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried Historians tell us that the most humiliating and painful...
Unity in Christian diversity
Vatican II had a lot to say about the scandal of divided Christianity, indeed a whole decree (Unitatis Redintegratio, 1964)...
