Education in Zimbabwe: Places of hope at a cost
Zimbabwe’s political and socio-economic instability has damaged an education system that once was the pride of Africa, as CLAIRE MATHIESON...
Claire Mathieson
Beating the bully culture
More and more school students report that they have personally experienced bullying or victimisation from peers. Statistics suggest the increase...
Which school should I send my children to?
The Church encourages Catholic parents to enrol their children in Catholic schools, but for many that is not always the...
Are Catholic schools still Catholic?
Catholic schools may achieve great academic results, but they must live out a Catholic ethos, according to Bishop Kevin DowlingFor...
Future priests on Catholic schools
Where did our priests go to school? CLAIRE MATHIESON went to find out which schools the country’s future priests attended. Among...
Future should be brighter for ‘born frees’
Children who were born in the year of South Africa’s first fully democratic election will write their matric this year,...
Producing great South Africans
Some people criticise Catholic schools for allegedly diluting the very thing that defines them. But while Catholic schools may no...
Overcoming the scandal of division
Throughout the ages, Christians have been more divided than united. Power struggles, differences on points of theology and sometimes pure...
Mary and our faith
Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary is one of the things that differentiates Catholics from most other Christian denominations. To...
