Why Jesus is the Perfect Role-Model for Manhood
The open, welcoming and vulnerable Jesus should serve as the perfect model for manhood, argues COLLEEN CONSTABLE. The idea of men’s ministries resonates with women as much as it does with men — but...
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Priests Say Vietnam is Letting Gangs Terrorise Catholics
Police have looked the other way as groups of youths have terrorised a Catholic community in northeast Vietnam. Ucanews.com reported that, throughout June, gangs of youths – wearing red T-shirts with yellow stars and...
Value Our Catholic Schools
There are diverse reasons why Catholic schools in South Africa exist, but the one uniting cause must always to bring Christ into the world of young people. Most of our Catholic schools — those...
Pope urges Merkel: Continue Supporting Paris Climate Agreement
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Pope Francis encouraged her to support international agreements like the Paris climate accord as well as to break down walls that divide people. The German leader’s 40-minute private audience...
Safeguarding Creation is Religious Obligation for All
Christians and Muslims, believers in one God, have an obligation to safeguard the world God created, said the Vatican’s annual message to Muslims for the end of Ramadan. “Our vocation to be guardians of...
Church Reports more than 3,300 killed in Congo fighting since October
More than 3,300 people have been killed in Congo’s Kasai region in fighting between the army and rebels since October, Catholic leaders said. The church’s findings were released in a United Nations statement June...
Parent-Child Relationships: The No-Lose Model
While the overall family theme for the year is “Families Walk the Talk” and for May it was “Parents Walk the Talk”, for June it’s the other parts of the Micah slogan, which is...
Private Morality vs Public Morality
JH Goossens, Pretoria – I refer to the interview with Rev Dr Walter Brueggemann, “Why we must learn to read the Bible anew” (May 24). This is an interview with a Protestant theologian who...
Our Youth: No Angels or Helpless Victims
The celebration of Youth Day, and remembering the extraordinary sacrifices and bravery of the Soweto youth of June 16, 1976, is these days often accompanied by a lament for modern-day youth: “The trouble with...
Only Love “In Here” Can Spot Love “Over There”
Fr John Allen Green OFM – John Duns Scotus (c. 1266-1308) was a Franciscan philosopher and theologian who in many ways paralleled Bonaventure’s ideas. Duns Scotus helped develop the doctrine of the univocity of being....
Pope: End fear, False Beliefs about Refugees by Getting to Know Them
Getting to know someone who is a refugee can wipe away fears and dismantle distorted ideologies, Pope Francis said. Highlighting World Refugee Day, which is marked June 20, the pope asked that “concrete attention...
The Gig’s Up: We Are Weak and We Need God
Christians who acknowledge their own weakness and limitations will find the saving power of God’s strength, Pope Francis said. However, recognising one’s own vulnerability is “one of the most difficult things in life,” and...
