Our future priests
Writing in our special focus on vocations this week, Anthony Gathambiri IMC argues that poor conduct by clergy has the...
2013
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.
Movie Reviews – The Host/Olympus Has Fallen/Seven Psychopaths/Won’t Back Down
The Host By John Mulderig, Catholic News Service NEW YORK (CNS) — Derived from a novel by “Twilight” author Stephenie Meyer,...
Demographic shifts mean Europe no longer Catholic Church’s centre
The election of Pope Francis, an Argentine, to lead the world’s 1,2 billion Catholics confirms what observers have long known:...
Pope John XXIII’s prophetic ‘Peace on Earth’ turns 50
Just over 50 years ago, the earth as we know it came dangerously close to being engulfed in a nuclear...
Being Christian means acting, loving like Christ, pope says at audience
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS)—A Christian isn’t a person who simply follows some commandments, but is...
Keep Falklands out of papacy
From Ron Pitchford, Middleburg The whole Catholic world must rejoice in the election of Pope Francis to lead the 1,2...
