Korean Priest Saw God’s Inner View
By Stephen Clark, Manila, Philippines – It’s not often that the Lord “tips his hand” and allows us to see things from his perspective and...
Category: Letter of the Week
Archbishop William Slattery: There’s a Death in the Family
It is a very sad moment in the history of the Catholic Church of South Africa to learn that our beloved weekly as we knew...
Our Lady Pleads With Us To Change
By Stephen Clark, Manila, Philippines – In a TV cop show I watched the other day, as they were about to introduce a new...
Coronavirus Has Exposed Deep Challenges In SA
By Dennis Jackson, Johannesburg – It is so sad! The arrival of the pandemic exposed a number of social challenges in our country. We have seen...
Ways to Spread the Burden of Giving Homilies
Derrick Kourie, Pretoria – I respond to Fr Chris Chatteris’ article “How not to crash the homily” Perhaps part of the problem is that over...
Coronavirus and the Real Invisible Danger
Stephen Clark, Manila, Philippines – The local and global responses to the coronavirus are interesting; here we have an invisible but real threat seen by...
Is Devil Using New Virus To Cause Us To Doubt?
Earl Smiles, Klerksdorp – At a Lenten lecture in the cathedral in Klerksdorp, Fr Don Bohé OMI repeated a much-loved phrase of his: “Mass is...
Reading God’s Word Daily Adds New Dimension
Heather Withers, Johannesburg – To the highly commendable Ten New Year’s resolutions suggested by Erin Carelse, I would like to add another one, if I...
Do Good Despite Ongoing Injustice
Lucy Rubin, Pretoria – In his column “How justice trumps charity” (December 25), Fr Ron Rolheiser describes a river town whose people constantly bury the...
Our Burnt Church Will Rise Again
Janet Hyland, Overstrand, Western Cape – Friday, January 11, 2019. People were milling around Kleinmond town hall preparing for the return of firefighters from their...
How I met Angels in a Supermarket
Ann Gover, Cape Town – I recently had a wonderful experience I would like to share. I went shopping on Christmas Eve at a busy...
Fair Capitalism Essential To Country’s Survival
Frans van Neerijnen, Roodepoort – I read with interest part two of Bishop Sipuka’s interview headlined ”What is needed to help fix SA’’ (November 27)....
