February 2018

Don’t Presume About Pro-Lifers

Your editorial “How to be Fully Pro-life” can’t be faulted up to the point where you assume that pro-lifers are not consistent and at odds in respect of the positions that they are taking with areas that face humanity daily.

Keep Going For Lent Girls!

Holy Rosary School in Edenvale, Johannesburg, observed Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent—the season of self-denial, reflection and spiritual growth—with a Mass at which the girls received...

Why Shouldn’t Kids be in Church?

I  am writing this letter to explain why my family and I have stopped attending our local Catholic parish church. On Saturday evening, an elderly lady accused me and my two small children of being a terrible distraction at Mass, and that we should be in the crying room.

The Power of Disability

At the Denis Hurley Centre in Durban, we aspire to live up to Pope Francis’ vision of the Church as “the House that welcomes all and refuses no one”. So, as well as providing a safe place for those who are homeless, or refugees, or drug addicts, we also try to be a place where people with disabilities feel welcome.