Seek out role models in the Church
To discover what is needed from each and every one who wishes to be a committed Christian, we cannot do...
June 2013
Mass readings – 30 June – 7 July, 2013
Liturgical Calendar Year C Weekdays Cycle Year 1 Sunday, June 30, 13th Sunday 1 Kings 19:16, 19-21, Psalm 16:1-2, 5,...
The persecution of Christians
CHRISTIANOPHOBIA: A Faith Under Attack, by Rupert Shortt. Random House (2013). 298pp Reviewed by Günther Simmermacher Such is the warped...
Retaining our Catholic youth
By R Auret, Thornville, KwaZulu-Natal ‘Retaining young Catholics” (January 16) must be one of the best articles written for The...
‘All of us’ are equally important in the church, pope says at audience
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service The stability of the church requires that it be built on Jesus, but its beauty...
The problem of atheism
GUEST EDITORIAL BY MICHAEL SHACKLETON It matters to the Church and its beliefs that there are professed and unprofessed atheists...
Future Pope Francis in conversation with rabbi
ON HEAVEN AND EARTH: Pope Francis on Faith, Family and the Church in the Twenty-First Century, by Jorge Mario Bergoglio...
The trouble with intellectual faith
BY PAUL MODUPE The kingdom of heaven will be taken from you and given to the people who will produce...
Let others be first in the queue
In earlier columns we talked about God’s ways being very different from ours, and we saw how Jesus came to...
