Dr Raymond Perrier – Page 9 – The Southern Cross

South Africa’s Time for Resurrection

For many Catholics, this year’s Holy Week is an experience of “virtual church”—those truly observing the lockdown, or people like […]

On March 21 we commemorated the 1960 Sharpeville massacre with Human Rights Day. What greater injustice to human rights can

Purification, ritual cleansing and sacrifice are not words that we often hear used by Catholics these days. But, even if

A cheesy cartoon from the 1970s had the slogan, “Love is… never having to say you are sorry”. I think that

It’s January. You are feeling the aftermath of the excesses of Christmas, New Year, gift-buying, partying and summer holidays. Your

The sight of people from the Amazon with traditional clothes and instruments participating in a Mass in one of Rome’s

When he announced the convening of the Second Vatican Council, Pope John XXIII proclaimed that he wanted “to open the

As a society we are getting better at talking about all kinds of subjects that were once taboo: gender-based violence,

The Denis Hurley Centre in Durban recently launched a campaign with the web-based news site Daily Maverick to invite South