A conversion of judgment
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany, known by the acronym EKD, recently published new guidelines on marriage which move away...
Mphuthumi Ntabeni
Popes shine a light on faith
Why does faith matter? The Catholic Church has always maintained that it’s to purify and enlighten, not to replace, reason. In...
The Church in the modern world
Over the centuries the Church has contributed to the enlightenment of humanity in various ways: spiritually, through crucial social problems...
The Christian of the future
Father Karl Rahner once said that the Christian of the future will be a mystic or not exist at all. He...
Learning from Germans
In April the Justice and Peace (J&P) Commission of the archdiocese of Cape Town was fortunate to have an information-sharing...
Today’s seven deadly sins
Apathy, cruelty, duplicity, hypocrisy, false morality, abuse of power and cultivated ignorance—these are said to be the seven deadly sins...
What the secular media failed to grasp
The resignation of a pope was always a going to be a controversial thing. What I didn’t expect was the...
Where are the apologists?
Why are there no longer popular Christian apologists, such as CS Lewis or GK Chesterton in our modern public spaces?...
How Church and state relate
In ancient times, before the reign of Constantine in the early fourth century, Christians were seen as a fundamental threat...
