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Blessed John Paul II

When a pope who is remembered vividly by millions of people is to be beatified, it is surely a newsworthy […]

Prostestants have often contended with some justification, that the average Catholic possesses less knowledge of the contents of the Bible

Growing up in the 1960s, I used to complain that my brothers were allowed to serve the priest on the

In July I visited China for two weeks as part of an official South African delegation. China has no real freedom of religion. Catholics

THE HEALING POWER OF PRAYER, by Thelma Coert. CB Publications, Cape Town. 2010. 76pp. Reviewed by Michael Shackleton This is

Other parishioners and I find it hard to forgive, or even begin to understand how the Lord’s anointed priests can

Mother Teresa of Calcutta has been accused of having been a hard-line conservative whose clinics were poorly run and who

Bishop Girotti of the Vatican’s Apostolic Penitentiary reportedly said that a priest who confesses sexual abuse should generally not be

9�DAYS TO HEAVEN: How to Make Everlasting Meaning of Your Life, by Teresa O�Driscoll. O Books, 2006. 110pp. Reviewed by