Lord Cardinals
I was disturbed to read that at the recent consistory Pope Benedict had addressed the new cardinals as “Lord Cardinals”....
Sue Rakoczy
The jarring new translation
Two Sundays have passed in which the new translation has been used. Here are two initial observations. In the prayer...
St Alphonsus and the New Translation
St Alphonsus Liguori, founder of the Redemptorist congregation, was a renowned teacher of prayer. He wrote a short book titled...
Celebrating 100 years of the ANC
The announcement that the ANC plans to spend R400 million (and more) on its Centenary celebrations, some of it from...
Spiritual Starvation
I belong to a “Spirituality Book Club” in Pietermaritzburg. We are a group of nine people from various Christian traditions....
Fear Not
In this Easter season, when the Scripture texts tell us of how frightened the disciples were behind locked doors, the...
Libya’s Long Arm to Ghana
With Libya in the news for weeks now, memories of my Ghana years (1982-1988) resurfaced since those were the “early...
Vocation Boom
I was in Nairobi recently for a conference and while there talked to a Nigerian priest who is a member...
Why the Rush?
The news that Pope John Paul II will be beatified on 1 May makes me ask “Why the rush for...
