Suicide: What the Church really teaches
BY TOM TRACY After 35 years of providing counselling and a Catholic outreach to families with a loved one who...
August 2014
Mass Readings – 17 August – 24 August, 2014
Liturgical Calendar Year A – Weekdays Cycle Year 2 Sunday, August 17, 20th Sunday Isaiah 56:1, 6-7, Psalm 67:2-3, 5-6,...
How the US has made bad situations worse in the Middle East
The heart wrenching tragedies throughout the Middle East are not the United States’ fault, that is, at least not entirely.
Laity’s financial expertise needed
From Mervyn Pollitt, Waterfall, KZN Your front-page report “SA bishops to discuss future of the Church” (July 30) states that,...
Catholics and atheists
Pope Benedict XVI surprised many in 2011 when he invited atheists to participate in his interfaith peace gathering in Assisi....
Woman’s special place in Church
BY FR RALPH DE HAHN Reading through sacred scripture it is evident that the male writers failed to give women...
Who works the hardest?
On the whole, I think, Catholics are not well informed on the Church’s teaching about family life. People know a...
Finding God in the arts
Imagine a group of highly talented people who through their work were able to influence large parts of the population,...
Mass Readings – August 10-17, 2014
Liturgical Calendar Year A – Weekdays Cycle Year 2 Sunday, August 10, 19th Sunday 1 Kings 19:9, 11-13, Psalm 85:9-14,...
