Upholding values is to protect human rights
Archbishop Denis Hurley worked in South Africa, Oscar Romero in El Salvador, Cesar Chavez in the United States, Kerry Kennedy...
2012
Real religious freedom
Christian hegemony over the centuries may well have clouded perceptions, especially in the West, about the incidence of religious freedom,...
Why there is no Alleluia in Lent
BY UGONNA JOHN BOSCO EZEOMEDO The word “Alleluia” comes from the Hebrew and literally means “Praise Yah”, and is translated...
Hurley Bio: A Full Life of Love
GUARDIAN OF THE LIGHT: Denis Hurley Renewing the Church, Opposing Apartheid, by Paddy Kearney. KwaZulu-Natal University Press, Scottsville. 2009. 382pp....
Lent: A time to be our real selves
BY ANTHONY GATHAMBIRI IMC Lent is well underway! Do you feel it? What a moment! It is a time that...
Creator of Heaven and Earth
God is a non-physical entity causally influencing the cosmos in non-physical ways. God’s mode of causal influence is more likely...
Giving up our time during Lent for our Lord
From Tom Drake, Johannesburg Our parish priest is not a great believer in the “giving up” of the usual things...
The land question
The government’s engagement with the Catholic Church on questions of the equitable distribution of land is much welcome. With a...
If it’s Friday, it must be fish
BY BRIAN MCGRADY In the 1930s, when I was growing up in Ireland, Fridays were meatless days for Catholics. I...
