Remembering SA’s Great Artist-Priest
Ten years ago Oblate Father Frans Claerhout, the Free State-based painter of world-renown, died. Retired journalist WINNIE GRAHAM recalls meeting...
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Facing Hiroshima
President Barack Obama visited Hiroshima, Japan, earlier this year, making him the first sitting president to visit the city where the...
Orlando Murders A Reckoning for Us
From Iswamo Kapulu, Johannesburg – Earlier this month a gunman murdered 49 people and injured a further 53 in Orlando, Florida....
The New Reality – Media Addiction
By Mark Pattinson – Let’s go back in time — way back — before Thomas Edison figured out how to...
Mass Readings: June 26-July 3, 2016
Liturgical Calendar Year C, Weekdays Cycle Year 2 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time Sunday June 26 1 Kings 19:16, 19-21,...
Via Dolorosa – The Well-Trod Way of Sorrow
This well-trod path – how maddening, how wrenching to follow along it once again. Forty-nine young lives cut down in...
Pope Francis: Before you judge, take a good look in the mirror
Christians must take a good look at their own sins before calling out their neighbour’s faults “Look at yourself in...
Iona: Scotland’s ‘thin place’ between Earth and Heaven
An ancient monastic community founded in the 6th century became a centre of learning and spirituality spreading Christianity through Britain...
