Pope launches Twitter account, tweets to more than 1 million followers
By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Benedict XVI launched his very own Twitter account, sending a short...
2012
Pope asks Catholics to read Bible, recall history of God’s saving love
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Urging Catholics to “pick up the Bible” and read it...
Latin means centralisation
From Rino Nicky, Hilton, KZN In regard to your November 21 headline “Latinam loquemur!” – what a gaffe! Latinam makes the language a...
Truth to Power
This weekend the African National Congress will vote for the party’s new leadership in their elective conference in Mangaung, a...
What we can learn from Book of Ruth
The story of Ruth is one of those beautiful, popular stories in the Bible, familiar even to children. However, this...
Book shows how the Holocaust could happen
A SMALL TOWN NEAR AUSCHWITZ: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust, by Mary Fulbrook. Oxford University Press, 2012. 448pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-960330-5...
How believers must treat others
In the previous column we discussed the destructiveness of human selfishness. In this article we shall examine briefly how religion...
Imagine: Pope trumps Lennon
After his violent death at the hands of Mark Chapman on December 8, 1980, society virtually canonised John Lennon as...
Mass readings 9 December – 16 December, 2012
Liturgical Calendar Year C Weekday cycle Year 1 Sunday, December 09, 2nd Sunday of Advent Baruch 5:1-9, Psalm 126:1-6, Philippians...
