Pope: Bishops must be servants, not vain careerists after power
By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service The world’s bishops are called to be servants and shepherds who use their position...
2014
Church has no pacifist tradition
Fr Bonaventure Hinwood OFM, Pretoria Due to the postal strike I have only recently seen Tony Magliano’s article “Can war...
Social change needed to arrest climate change
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING: Capitalism vs the Climate, by Naomi Klein. Simon & Schuster. 2014. 576pp Reviewed by Fr Chris Chatteris...
The Church and Science
It seems that all pronouncements by Pope Francis which defy the secular worlds preconceived notions about the Church are being...
All that Dies Shall Return to Life
BY ERNEST MWAPE A Â person whose fate has been generous may not have great difficulties in accepting the idea that...
Fatima and Lourdes: Ave Maria…
In October a group of Southern Cross pilgrims, led by Bishop Joao Rodrigues of Tzaneen, returned from a pilgrimage to...
Mass Readings November 2-9, 2014
Liturgical Calendar Year A – Weekdays Cycle Year 2 Sunday, November 2, Feast of All Saints Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14, Psalm...
It’s Time to Fix our Families
Family-friendly: That is the name of this monthly column in which I share some thoughts on the subject. When I...
Do We Understand How We Are Saved?
John Lee, Johannesburg –Â Pope Francis and his predecessors as far back as Pope Paul VI have all been stressing the...
