Prelude to a Xhosa disaster
Whenever the Xhosa nation is under heightened tensions, whether political or economic, it tends to appeal to numinous forces for...
2013
Mass Readings December 15-22, 2013
Liturgical Calendar Year C Weekdays Cycle Year 1 Sunday December 15, 3rd Sunday of Advent Isaiah 35: 1-6,10, Psalms 146:6-10,...
Every child deserves to be loved
From Joezette MacKay, Pietermaritzburg Responding to Sharon West’s letter of November 13, I have been Catholic my whole life but...
Pope at audience: Americas, open your arms to poor, immigrants, unborn
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Francis prayed that Catholics throughout the Americas would open...
A crisis few know of
While the world’s attention is firmly fixed on the civil war in Syria, a possibly even greater tragedy is being...
Catholic on fellow prisoner Mandela
Nelson Mandela looked down on the tens of thousands of people gathered at his memorial service in Johannesburg and smiled...
“Let us now sing the praises of famous men”
By Archbishop Stephen Brislin We heard of the death of Rolihlahla Nelson Mandela with great sadness. Nonetheless we cannot help...
Nelson Mandela – The Icon who challenges to high things
To almost everyone who hears the name Nelson Mandela (or even more fondly Madiba) the first thought is that he...
