‘A Riot Is The Language Of The Unheard’
Last year I was knocked to the ground and pinned down by an assailant who held his hand over my mouth. I cried out, “I...
Category: Ethics & Human Dignity
It’s Time For The Church To Lead By Example
A new kind of front line is emerging on the scene of the next phase of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States: that of...
Caring for Seafarers in Corona Times
The Covid-19 restrictions have also limited the work of the Apostleship of the Sea, which provides pastoral care to seafarers. But its port chaplains remain...
Humanity May Never Again Get A Chance Like This – Let’s Not Squander It!
While to a certain degree returning to “business as usual” will not likely happen, that does not mean the vast majority of those who hold...
The Catholic Church And Human Rights
On March 21 we commemorated the 1960 Sharpeville massacre with Human Rights Day. What greater injustice to human rights can there have been than to...
Put Jesus into the Economy
Our mission surely is to put Jesus into the economy. Mission is not just braving jungles and deserts; it is also braving the complex world...
Its All About Money, Even If It Hurts Us
In the name of profit at all cost, we see in the business world rather disquieting practices that effectively undermine basic human dignity. The World...
Oblate Warns of OR Tambo Drug Trafficking
Nearly 20% of people arrested in Hong Kong in 2018/19 for possession of drugs, smuggled the substance via OR Tambo International in Johannesburg, according to...
I’m #AngryForJustice
Can the #newnobility actually do any good? I recently noticed that a certain established bank — the editor won’t let me use its name, but...
Imagine Having No Place To Call Home
Just imagine for a moment that you have no home. What will you do for meals today? Where will you shower? Where will you sleep?...
Nuns Release Spiritual Mandala in Call to Unity after Xenophobic Attacks
By Sheila Pires & Erin Carelse – A group of Southern African nuns from different congregations has released a graphic mandala — a circular spiritual design...
Archbishop Buti Tlhagale: Echoes of Nazis in SA
The archbishop of Johannesburg has compared the rhetoric and actions against foreign nationals in Gauteng to “the rising tide of hatred in Nazi Germany”. Archbishop...
