The Bible makes a comeback
Prostestants have often contended with some justification, that the average Catholic possesses less knowledge of the contents of the Bible...
Michael Shackleton
When did girl servers come in?
Growing up in the 1960s, I used to complain that my brothers were allowed to serve the priest on the...
The ethics of Mass in China
In July I visited China for two weeks as part of an official South African delegation. China has no real freedom of religion. Catholics...
Healing prayer
THE HEALING POWER OF PRAYER, by Thelma Coert. CB Publications, Cape Town. 2010. 76pp. Reviewed by Michael Shackleton This is...
How do we forgive priests who sin?
Other parishioners and I find it hard to forgive, or even begin to understand how the Lord’s anointed priests can...
In defence of Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa of Calcutta has been accused of having been a hard-line conservative whose clinics were poorly run and who...
Confession can’t be coercive
Bishop Girotti of the Vatican’s Apostolic Penitentiary reportedly said that a priest who confesses sexual abuse should generally not be...
Novena for stressed-out Catholics
9 DAYS TO HEAVEN: How to Make Everlasting Meaning of Your Life, by Teresa O’Driscoll. O Books, 2006. 110pp. Reviewed by...
The pope is more than a soccer captain
I am confused about what is called the collegiality of the bishops of the Church. If the bishops, including the...
