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 […]
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Church Perspectives Shackleton
Perspectives
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
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Perspectives Raymond Perrier
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.
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Movies
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,
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Church
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:
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Magliano Perspectives
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
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Pope Francis
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
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Your Letters
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
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Editorials Editorials 2013
Let the sneezing begin
Within the space of just a few weeks, Pope Francis has changed the way the papacy presents itself to the
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