Cleanse Your Heart as you Wash Your Clothes
Tau Moleli, Maseru, Lesotho – Cleaning and purifying our bodies, as temples of God, is expected of us by Our Lord. And so we human beings are likely to show an interest in bathing,...
Category: Letter of the Week
Trading in Arms is Never Christian
Roy Glover, Knysna – There is so much truth in your editorial “The profit in war”. What has happened is what historian Oswald Spengler predicted a century ago: democracy has become plutocracy, rule by...
Posing on the Altar? No Thanks
Petrina Viljoen, Cape Town – At the ripe old age of 91, and having been a practising Catholic all my life, I have never been so horrified as I was sitting for one and...
Greed Can Indeed Overwhelm Us
Roy Glover, Knysna – I write in full support of the excellent letter by Sr Angelika Laub OP. What is emphasised in her letter is the problem which, to a greater or lesser extent,...
Answers on Jesuit Abuse Case
Fr David Rowan SJ, Regional superior, Society of Jesus in South Africa – Although all the issues raised have been addressed in numerous media recently, the Southern Cross letter “Clear answers now on abuse”...
‘Church Now in Transition Period’
Patrick Dacey, Johannesburg – ‘The difficulty which we [the Catholic Church] face today, is that we are living in a transition period between a dying model of Church and an emerging model of Church....
Mary Gave Birth Fully to God
Nicolette Whittle, Kroonstad – In his letter Our Faith is Not Based on a Mystery , Peter Hoar stated that our faith is not based on mystery, but on Christic revelation. Mr Hoar pointed...
Clear Answers Needed Now on SA Church Abuse
Mervyn Pollitt, Waterfall, KZN – The case of a Jesuit priest’s sexual abuse of William Segodisho in the late 1980s which both the order and the priest himself have acknowledged to be true, raises...
Rampant Capitalism Hurts Women the Most
Sr Angelika Laub OP, Pretoria – Most people in developed countries and many millions living in towns in developing countries are aware, or becoming aware now, of the damage global capitalism is inflicting...
Pope Francis Left to Handle Crisis
Patrick Dacey, Johannesburg – The Church is in crisis. Can we remember when the last pope was called upon to resign by his fellow cardinals and bishops? Yet, Pope Francis has been handed the...
Mary as Mother and Advocate
Fr Sekabata Solomon Mphela OFM, Johannesburg – The feast of St Francis falls in October during the month of the rosary, and I have often wondered, who was the Blessed Virgin Mary for St...
No Stopwatch When Praying!
Tom Drake, Johannesburg – Different folks, different strokes! I have always had a problem with set prayers rattled off in community, or perhaps even on one’s own. It seems to me that prayer is,...
