Foot-Washing Rite at Holy Thursday Mass
The foot-washing ceremony on Holy Thursday is perhaps one of the most meaningful of the Sacred Triduum’s liturgical moments. It has been made even more significant now....
Editorials 2016
What We Pray for in 2017
The year 2016 will be remembered by many as an annus horribilis, a year that brought little by way of good news. Perhaps the Holy Spirit was...
Have Yourself a Very Messy Christmas
One of Pope Francis’ favourite words is “messy”. He uses it in different contexts to wake us up to the reality that life is not neat, predictable...
Challenging the Pope
This Week’s Editorial looks at disunity in the very heart of the Church. The unity of the Catholic Church is shaken when a small group of cardinals publicly...
Don’t Fight over Mary
This Week’s editorial looks at the role of Mary in the Church and how the faithful can sometimes create divisiveness in their devotion unless led by the...
Bigotry: Be the Cure
The year has seen the triumph of fear-based politics: the success of Donald Trump’s hate-based campaign, the Brexit vote, and Turkey’s surrender of civil liberties in the...
An Eternal Season of Mercy
In the world today, the definitions and certainties of the human experience are shifting. Family life, sexuality, sacredness of life and so many other areas of our...
Leave it in the Ground
When pumped or squeezed out of the earth, oil pollutes both the natural and moral environments. Land is blighted by it; governments become corrupted by it; wars...
Cesspool of Corruption
The waves of revelations about the corruption of the government under President Jacob Zuma, and the extent to which the president and those at his side will...
Responding to Abortion
Twenty years ago this month, parliament voted to pass the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act, which legalised abortion in South Africa. The Guttmacher Institute, a...
