We Must Overcome SA’s Heritage of Corruption
As South Africans celebrate Heritage Day, BISHOP VICTOR PHALANA of Klerksdorp recalls a history of corruption in the country that goes back to the day Jan van Riebeeck arrived on our shores in 1652. On...
Category: Church
What Kind of Africa do We Want?
By James Qeqe – What is it that we are doing wrong in Africa? Or, what is it that we are not doing at all? How can there be so many sufferings on the mother continent...
Presentation Sister Aletha Madziro: This is My Story
Every vocation story is different. Here SR ALETHA MATISWAYIRI MADZIRO tells hers, as a Presentation Sister in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe was once considered the breadbasket of Africa, a country rising to prominence. It declined into poverty...
Lesson from the Virus and Fatima: Be Prepared
Stephen Clark, Manila, Philippines – Recently a couple of acquaintances, a Brother and Sister, were found to be Covid-19 positive, although fortunately asymptomatic thus far. Faced with the sudden possibility of death people often have...
How To Manage Kids And Screens
By Mark Pattison – Many of our children have been staring at screens since March as they, their classmates and their teachers all figured out how to do distance learning on the fly. And even...
Pope: Church Becomes Sick When Not the Proclaiming Gospel
By Junno Arocho Esteves – If the Church fails to go out and proclaim the Gospel to those who are lost or forgotten, it risks falling ill to the evil that is committed by its own...
Bishops Come Out In Support Of Doctor Who Works With Rape Victims
By Fredrick Nzwili – DRC bishops are expressing solidarity with Denis Mukwege, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning gynaecologist who has received death threats over his continued call for justice and accountability over war crimes. The doctor –...
Woe to the Corrupt!
The corrupt steal from the poor and offend God. BISHOP GRAHAM ROSE counts the ways in which they put their souls and salvation at risk. South Africans are protesting against widespread corruption in the country....
Pope: Saying Thank You to God is a Beautiful Prayer
By Cindy Wooden – Saying “thank you” to God is a beautiful prayer, Pope Francis told a group of children and teenagers with autism. “God likes that way of praying,” he said on September 21 during...
Online Rage: Sweeter Than The Honeycomb
By John Garvey – I’m certainly not the first person to observe that the tone of our civic discourse has gotten increasingly angry. I have recently come to realise, though, that some people actually like it...
South Africa’s Rulers Are Parading Naked
Tony Meehan, Cape Town – Your editorial “A nation of impunity” (August 12) tells of South Africans being angry at its nation plagued by a culture of impunity; and when officials of government are challenged,...
Two Canadian Bishops Disavow Priest’s “Prophecies”
By Francois Gloutnay – Two Canadian dioceses have disavowed the messages and prophecies of a Canadian priest known for prophesying doom. Bishop Gilles Lemay of Amos, Quebec, disavowed the messages and prophecies of Father Michel Rodrigue...
