Our Prayers for 2020
Every year we issue our prayer intentions for the coming year. Usually, we include both local and global issues,...
Editorials 2019
Who Will Save us From the State We’re In?
Guest Editorial by Bishop Sylvester David OMI, auxiliary bishop of Cape Town In 1966 the famed duo Simon & Garfunkel...
Debunking the Myth of ‘Pagan’ Christmas
At this time of the year, Catholics are liable to be lectured with the inaccurate notion that the celebration of...
Teaching About Sex
The two areas where the teachings of the Church are most at odds with mainstream secular society are those of...
Peace Amid the Noise
For Catholics, the Advent season should create a tension in reconciling the secular and the holy elements of the weeks...
The Diversity in Catholicism
Some of the protests against the recent Synod of Bishops on the Amazon seemed to insist that there can be...
To Be Waterwise
In the face of climate change we will have to get used to increasingly frequent droughts in South Africa,...
The Tensions of Art
The blistering outrage over a school art project that was considered by some to be blasphemous holds lessons for...
We Are Saints
Guest Editorial by Michael Shackleton Celebrating the memory of the great saints of the Church is an annual time to...
