Getting to know God is like getting fit
The other day I jumped on my bike to go for a ride around where I live. The golden leaves...
2012
Hitler, Mussolini and two Popes Pius
HITLER, MUSSOLINI AND THE VATICAN: Pope Pius XI and the Speech That Was Never Made, by Emma Fattorini, Polity Press,...
Half a century later, still answering Fatima questions
By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service The feast of Our Lady of Fatima, May 13, is the occasion every...
Ancestors and faith
BY SIMANGALISO MAGUDULELA Members of the United Apostolic Church pray at the divine Fertility Caves deep in the Maluti Mountains...
Choose blessings not curses
The apostle Paul writes to the Romans: “Bless your persecutors; never curse them, bless them…Never pay back evil with evil…Never...
Opening the door a chink
From Tom Drake, Johannesburg Mario Compagnoni (“A non-believer’s opinion”, April 18), welcome to the company of seekers: those who are not...
The dangers of your faithful babysitter…
Bringing up children is not an easy task. I am often amazed at the glut of magazines available at any...
Mary and our faith
Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary is one of the things that differentiates Catholics from most other Christian denominations. To...
Catholics and Atheists
This week we devote the entire letters page of responses to an atheist who wrote of his disappointing experience of...
