About 40 years ago I was waylaid in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, by an Irish Catholic priest who wanted to have a […]

Almost exactly four years ago, following the untimely death of Owen Williams, who penned this back page column for decades

For many months now the media spotlight has every now and then paused on the drought disaster on the Horn

What do slave trading, newspapers and Cape Governor Sir George Young have in common? Or Mrs Ball’s Chutney, Jeyes Fluid

Last month a letter to the editor by Albert Vianello raised the question of germs, and a fellow Catholic, Dr

A few weeks ago Spanish citizens took to the streets in protest against their country spending almost R1 billion for

There is increasing sentiment within various levels of Catholic hierarchy these days about the biggest challenge facing the Church: the

There is nothing that appeals more to my innate sense of laziness than receiving e-mails from fellow Catholics who are

My father, a teacher, instilled in his children a love of reading. Not a love of books, mind, but a