Catholic burials for non-Catholics
My non-Catholic wife and I were married by a Catholic priest. Before we married, my wife was diagnosed with an […]
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With Jesus in the suburbs
MY WALK WITH JESUS, by Gilbert MacDonald. Published by Melrose Books, Cambridgeshire. 2008. 186pp. Reviewed by Michael Shackleton The Cape
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Missionary journey
EMPANDENI INTERLUDE 1899-1903, Journal of a Woman Missionary. Transcribed and edited by Sr Brigid Rose Tiernan. Cluster Publications, Pietermaritzburg. 2008.
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Divinity in poetry
THROUGH THE UNKNOWN REMEMBERED GATE by Margaret Blackie. New Voices Publishing, Cape Town. 2008. 145pp. AGE IS A BEAUTIFUL PHASE
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Getting sick from hands at Mass?
We shake hands at Mass with all sorts of people. Then the sacred host is put in the same hands
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John Henry Newman
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN: A Mind Alive, by Roderick Strange. Dartman, Longman and Todd, London. 2008. 158pp. Reviewed by Michael Shackleton
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Benediction downgraded?
I have been told that the modern Church has downgraded the old-style worship of the Blessed Sacrament, such as in
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For the Sake of Silence – Michael Cawood Green
FOR THE SAKE OF SILENCE, by Michael Cawood Green. Published by Umuzi, Cape Town. 2008. 558pp. Reviewed by Michael Shackleton
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Why do young Catholics go Pentecostal?
Why is it that so many young people, including Catholics, are attracted to join the Pentecostal churches such as the
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