Art Can Distort Church Figures
How historical figures can be distorted was brought home to me while I was visiting the Prado Museum in Madrid earlier this year.
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Church Church History Raymond Perrier
Old Bones Inspire Me: Relics in Rome
As you walk around the “Eternal City” — and I walked 50km in four days — you are conscious that you are treading on the bones of the past.
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Durban Artists’ Group Draws Inspiration from Trappists
A group of 16 artists from Durban have been experiencing their own sense of wonder at creation by trailing the 19th-century Trappist monks of KwaZulu-Natal.
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Tough Questions: Organ Transplants and Donation
I would like to share some thoughts with readers about organ transplants, looking at the Catechism of the Church and at some articles in The Southern Cross.
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Church Division: It’s Time for Church Unity
The Reformation deeply divided Christianity. We still live with the scars of that Church division today, but we need to place the events that led to the rise of Protestantism into their historical context.
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Luther and the Medieval Catholic Church
How Protestants regarded Martin Luther has evolved as the Reformation he engendered has likewise evolved, according to German Catholic theologian Father Peter Neuner.
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South Africa’s Catholic Church Heritage
The Catholic Chuch in South Africa has a rich history of suppression and opposition in South Africa – so from the first Mass said around 1487 till today when we are celebrating the 200th anniversary of the South African Catholic Church – we also celebrate the lives of those who built the faith in SA.
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Catholic Church is Journeying Back to its Nonviolent Roots
The Catholic Church preaches, teaches and practices total nonviolence. This statement is not true regarding the Catholic Church today. But it was an accurate and true description of the Catholic Church during its first 300 years.
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Our Knowledge of the Bible
The Bible has never been neglected by the Catholic Church. This is because both the Old Testament and the New have only one core, one point of reference, and that is Jesus Christ.
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