Freedom to be…what?
With Freedom Day coming up on April 27, the concept of freedom has lately been milling around in my head. Who,...
April 2013
Mass Readings – 21 April – 28 April, 2013
Liturgical Calendar Year C Weekdays Cycle Year 1 Sunday, April 21 Acts 13:14, 43-52, Psalm 100:1-2, 3, 5, Revelation 7:9,...
Historian: England’s Last Catholic King called for Religious Freedom
An account of a speech on religious liberty by England’s last Catholic king published by a historian shows that the 17th-century monarch was revolutionary in his thinking on the freedom of conscience.
Pope Francis: Best defence against sin and temptation is Jesus
Surrounded by the devil’s temptations and being susceptible to sin, people can always find help, support and forgiveness in Jesus...
Cultish elitism mars vocations
From Wesley Seale, Cape Town –Â One hastens to respond to Name Withheld (Vocations wrongs, April 3) with the words of...
Our future priests
Writing in our special focus on vocations this week, Anthony Gathambiri IMC argues that poor conduct by clergy has the...
Do Poor Homilies lose Parishioners?
I took a business associate with me to Sunday Mass in Johannesburg. His comment afterwards certainly made me think: The...
Keeping your goal in mind
I remember years ago in my confirmation class we were asked to do a task as one of the class...
Religious Practices: Is Our Faith just Cultural?
Of course, said the smooth-tongued psychologist from the capital, it’s not really religion, Â it’s culture. Thus, the deeply-felt practices of millions are dismissed by those who cannot understand how the absurdity of medieval religion has survived into a modern age.
