Mass Readings – June 8-15, 2014
Liturgical Calendar Year A – Weekdays Cycle Year 2 Sunday, June 8, Pentecost Sunday Acts 2:1-11, Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-31,...
2014
The Holy Land Principles: A powerful tool for justice and peace
During his recent pilgrimage to the Holy Land, the pope of surprises gave the world an unexpected powerful message.
Celibacy is not the cause of priest shortage
Marie-Anne te Brake, Johannesburg – I am submitting this letter in response to Married priests is the solution (May 25).According...
Fairy tales: To tell or not to tell
The old fairy tales don’t give a picture of strong women. How does the modern parent impart empowering values to...
Children’s lives most precious
The law in Belgium and Holland that enables a person to choose voluntary euthanasia in the case of terminal diseases...
Value of human life
GUEST EDITORIAL BY MICHAEL SHACKLETON In October, 2010, a South African doctor, Sean Davison, was arrested in New Zealand on...
Community pictures – May 28, 2014
Pictures from our Catholic communities across the country
Why Jesus went to hell
BY CHRIS BUSSCHAU In a letter to the editor, reader Lou Corbitt (April 23) expressed discomfort with the new English...
Our ‘doing God’ election
Alastair Campbell, a senior adviser to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, made famous the term “We don’t do God”...
