Lenten Joy and Pain
For Catholics, and some other Christians, it is part of life’s cultural tradition to make the sacrifice of giving up some luxury or vice for Lent –Â sweets,...
Editorials 2014
A Prosperous New Year?
Acting editor Fr Chris Chatteris SJ Theres definitely more and more of them about  books on the end of economic growth are now coming at us thick...
Our Prayers for 2015
As we change our calendars from 2014 to 2015, we give thanks to God for his abundant graces, even those we are unable to discern in times...
Christmas Trek and Back
GUEST EDITORIAL BY PULENG MATSANENG South Africa’s migratory culture makes the Christmas season especially vibrant. People plan for the season as early as the beginning of the...
The fallout from the long postal strike
The long, protracted postal strike has done business in South Africa great harm. It affected especially small and medium-sized enterprises which rely on the services of a postal...
Pope Francis’ position
Clearly, many people have yet to work out Pope Francis who in less than two years has profoundly changed the tone of the papacy, and therefore of...
The woman priest debate
The recent ordination in South Africa of a woman, Dr Mary Ryan, to the Catholic priesthood – an illicit and invalid act in Church law – has...
The historical Jesus
Catholics will be exasperated by the periodic claims by experts, many of them self-proclaimed, that Jesus did not exist or that “new findings” reveal some controversy or...
Solidarity of Faiths
Recent reports from Pakistan of Christians being sentenced to death on charges of blasphemy, and even murdered for it, should alarm not only other Christians, but all...
The Church and Science
It seems that all pronouncements by Pope Francis which defy the secular worlds preconceived notions about the Church are being hailed as revolutionary breakthroughs, even if they...
