God’s Endless Universe
Christmas, the author Norman Vincent Peale once said, “waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer...
December 2014
No one should be hungry during the Christmas season
In early December, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) stopped feeding 1.7 million Syrian refugees.
Pope starts series of talks on Holy Family
By Francis X. Rocca, Catholic News Service At his last weekly public audience of 2014, Pope Francis started a series...
We Love our Hurley Sandwich
A Sandwich centre – what a wonderful analogy! By referring to the new almost-completed Denis Hurley Centre in the heart...
Christmas Trek and Back
GUEST EDITORIAL BY PULENG MATSANENG South Africa’s migratory culture makes the Christmas season especially vibrant. People plan for the season...
Let’s test the claims of faith-healers
By FR OSKAR WERMTER SJ The junior doctors working in Zimbabwe’s major referral hospitals recently went on strike for better...
Superfast cars and fast Internet
Every now and then one has the good fortune to live out a childhood fantasy. Fortune smiled upon me and...
The surprising silence of Christmas
I have never really been a fan of Christmas, but there is one year in particular that sends me down...
Mass Readings – December 14 – 21, 2014
Liturgical Calendar Year B – Weekdays Cycle 1 Sunday December 14, Third Sunday of Advent Is 61, 1-2.10-11, Lk 1,...
