Year-end Review 2012
It was the year in which Pope Benedict opened the Year of Faith, the world’s bishops discussed the New Evangelisation...
December 2012
Dump the bad news. Let’s build a new Africa
BY ANTHONY GATHAMBIRI IMC A story is told of a certain zoo somewhere in Africa. In this zoo, there are...
Keeping the family traditions going
How do you grow family traditions or instil family values in children when they can’t even sit still long enough...
Mass readings 30 December, 2012 – 6 January, 2013
Liturgical Calendar Year C Weekdays Cycle Year 1 Sunday, December 30, The Holy Family Sirach 3:2-7, 12-14, Psalm 128:1-5, Colossians...
Who killed Gandhi?
GANDHI AND THE UNSPEAKABLE: His Final Experiment With Truth, by James W Douglass. Orbis Books (New York). 2012. 168pp. ISBN:...
Consider a ‘just contraception’
From Derek Bayman, Durban No practising Catholic would deny that your correspondents defending the principles of Humanae Vitae are correct—but...
Our Prayers for 2013
In his missionary prayer intention for August, Pope Benedict asks us that the churches of Africa, faithful to the Gospel...
What it means to be a real friend
Saint Thomas Aquinas wrote: “There is nothing on this earth to be prized more than true friendship.” And I deeply...
Mass readings 23 December – 31 December, 2012
Liturgical Calendar Year C Weekdays Cycle Year 1 Sunday, December 23 Micah 5:1-4, Psalm 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19, Hebrews 10:5-10, Luke...
