The Day South Africa got its first Cardinal
Becoming a cardinal can give you a spring in your step, as Owen McCann, archbishop of Cape Town, found when […]
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Church History Shackleton
Evil & Persecution Shackleton
How Do We Explain The World’s Evil?
One is horrified by the evil that is terrifying all and sundry these days. How can one explain why the
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Church Liturgy Perspectives Shackleton
Rules for Women in the Sanctuary?
I believe there are norms in place to regulate having women in the sanctuary during liturgical rites. If so, what
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Family Perspectives Shackleton
Why is the Church so Tough on Divorce?
The Catholic Church seems to be the only church, if not the only religion, that stubbornly refuses to allow a
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Perspectives Shackleton
Was the Other Thief Saved?
In Luke 23:39-43 there is the story of the two thieves crucified with Jesus. One asked Jesus to remember him
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Church Perspectives Shackleton
What is ‘Justice for All’ in the Church?
The so-called social teaching of the Church confuses me because the Catechism of the Catholic Church is long-winded about it.
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Books
Priest’s stories about deaf-blind friend are like a mission retreat
PERHAPS GOD: Wisdom Through the Gift of Disability, by Larry Kaufmann CSsR. Redemptorist Pastoral Publications, Johannesburg, 2015. 66pp. R80 Reviewed
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Church Perspectives Shackleton
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
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Church Perspectives Shackleton
How to Set Up a Parish Council
Please advise how I could go about setting up a parish pastoral council. I have been in this parish for
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