The Costs of Training our Priesthood
Recently a Southern Cross story discussed the financial cost of training priests. A group of seminarians from St Francis Xavier...
June 2015
Pope’s Green Blueprint
Like the saint of Assisi whose name he adopted upon his pontifical election in 2013, Pope Francis uses his platform...
The Benefits of Centering Meditation
Learners are usually told to be wide awake and alert in school. PAUL FALLERÂ argues that quiet time for meditation has...
A Martyr’s Lesson for Rural Schools
In September a South African school principal will be beatified. STUART GRAHAM looks at Benedict Daswa, the teacher. Benedict Daswa...
Better way than Old-School Punishment
At a time when learners know their rights, is there an alternative to corporal punishment? ANNE?BAKER explains how discipline based...
Why Catholic Schools still Need Chaplains
Even in a time when Catholic schools do not always have a majority Catholic student body, the role of the...
Why Couldn’t Priest Hear Confession?
After Mass in a diocese in Britain I requested the celebrant to hear my confession. He replied he couldn’t, because...
The Green Encyclical has Arrived!
It’s courageous, it’s prophetic, it’s challenging, it’s holistic, it’s wonderful: That’s what I think of Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical “Laudato...
Live Your Life – Today
I often think that teenagers must get frustrated with us older folk when we begin conversations with them like this:
