Regina Mundi Jubilee – Archbishop Buti Tlhagale’s homily
Regina Mundi Jubilee (50 years) – Archbishop Buti Tlhagale Perhaps we should ask ourselves what ideas, needs and motivations were behind the actions and attitudes of people,...
August 2012
Regina Mundi: Cathedral of the Nation turns 50
The parish of Regina Mundi is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month. CLAIRE MATHIESON looks at the history of South Africa’s most famous parish and its church,...
Seeking the truth
From Anthony Sturges, Johannesburg Franko Sokolic (August 8) and I do agree on one point: the Father is creator of all heaven and earth. It is how...
Communicating where the people are
In a world increasingly dominated by media and communications, the Church is called to join in. If that means meeting her people online, on air, in print,...
Speaking with silence
When we speak of communications, it seems counter-intuitive to counsel the virtues of silence, as Pope Benedict does this year in his message on social communications.
He will come again to judge the living and the dead
Biologically, living is the condition of being alive, the ability for an organism to get and organise autonomously the energy from the environment for the reproduction of...
How to communicate well
Sometimes it seems that we never forgave Gutenberg for inventing his printing press! Though the Church has engaged with various forms of public media from the beginning,...
Mass readings 26 August – 2 September, 2012
Liturgical Calendar Year B Weekdays Year 2 Sunday, August 26, 21st Sunday Joshua 24:1-2, 15-18, Psalm 34:2-3, 16-21, Ephesians 5:21-32 or 5:2, 25-32 John 6:60-69 Monday, August...
Marikana: A statement
Following is a statement on the Marikana tragedy signed by a group of concerned Catholics. We reproduce it here as a contribution to a national conversation. The...
Let the story be the lesson
From Catherine de Valence, Cape Town As I pondered and reflected on the question: “Why do you speak to them in parables?” (Mt 13:10), I see it...
