Pray With the Pope: July 2020
Pope’s Universal Prayer Intention: That today’s families may be accompanied with love, respect and guidance. The great value of family connections As a great-uncle, I...
Category: Family
Back to the Basics Now!
Go back to your households, your homes, your families. Go back to the place of resilience, of strength, of support—or possibly go back to the...
Love Is No Victory March
New start, fresh perspectives and yet some things stayed the same. As always, on school days a woman accompanies her children on a 3km uphill...
Pope: Put the Phone Away and Talk to Each Other
By Cindy Wooden – Pope Francis prayed that people all over the world would end 2019 “in peace, peace in their hearts,” and that families...
The Church and Family: Let Me Speak Boldly
Before I started writing this article I was reading the October 16 issue of The Southern Cross. A few things in particular struck me as...
Not Missing a Beat: Record School Attendance!
Zaine Perry has received a special achievement award for not missing a day of school in 14 years, an achievement his mother Michelle Perry, Southern...
July is for Grandparents
Working with family themes month by month has been quite useful for me to reflect more deeply on the domestic church, or the little church...
The Genes You Wear
By Mahadi and Rob Buthelezi – Who am I and who are you? What is your make-up, your DNA? Or, put differently, what genes...
How to Make ‘Sacrifices of Love’
Someone said to me the other day that your Lenten sacrifice should be your secret with God. That sounds fine, to a point. I also...
Every Family Matters!
It’s quite a number of years now that I have been submitting this column under the heading “Family Friendly”. Apart from the feedback I get...
Raising Our Boy with Autism
Janine Scott dos Santos’ son has autism, a condition still not understood well by society. Here she shares her journey. ‘These days, everybody has a...
Priests and Bishops Attend Family Violence Conference
Priests and bishops from various dioceses attended a conference on the family and violence in Benoni, Gauteng. The guest speakers, from Canada, were clinical psychologist...
