The Church: Inside and Out
Guest editorial: Michael Shackleton – Like a coin, there are two sides to the Church. One side faces the world around it. The other side is seen and experienced by its faithful people in...
Category: Perspectives
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
The plan is perfect! The blueprints have been made and issued to the builders. But hold on Houston, we have a problem. Somehow history has moved on and time and space now occupy another...
Church Analyst: SONA Honoured its Commitments
In a position paper on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s 2019 State of the Nation (SONA) address, a Church analyst said that a year after President Jacob Zuma’s departure, the state of South Africa is “politically,...
Radio Veritas’ Men in Christ Show Promises Strong Lineup in 2019
Radio Veritas’ “Men in Christ—The Essence of the Christian Man” show ended 2018 with a bang, and members are ready, with the Holy Spirit as their guide, to continue their 2019 journey as men...
Papal Report on Women Deacons Submitted: SA View
Dr Annemarie Paulin-Campbell of the Jesuit Institute stayed up into the early hours to tune into a live American panel discussion on the future of women deacons, following the submission to Pope Francis of...
Saintly Lives: How Domitila Met Danny
In the second article in his four-part series on the lives of Little Eden founder Domitilla Rota Hyams and her husband Danny, Daluxolo Moloantoa tells of how three POWs fell for an Italian village girl.
Why We Need to Revisit the Past
Holidays are a great time to chill, relax and have a chance to allow your mind to wonder. I am not a New Year’s resolution type of guy, for consistency is everything and minor...
Open the Church to Celibacy Debate
I find it quite strange that when there is debate about whether the Catholic Church should ease its compulsory celibacy discipline, many protest against it. But maybe it is time that the Church evolves...
WYD Was a Camino in Every Way
Having travelled to Panama City for World Youth Day, GÜNTHER SIMMERMACHER shares his impressions of the event and the people who made it happen. See the video below for a set of his pictures, supplemented by more from Catholic News Service.
Fifth Sunday of the Year Reflection
The suburb of Bertrams in the Johannesburg is what you would term a ‘rough neighbourhood’; there are gangs, drug lords, prostitutes and destitute squatters. It was here that I live and worked with...
Salesian Lay Group Launches Earth-Friendly Products
Salesian Life Choices, a lay organisation under the Don Bosco ethos, has started a social enterprise called Nurturer, a range of local, affordable, earth-friendly personal care and cleaning products. All the net profit generated...
Death Penalty Is Now Forbidden By The Church?
Why has Pope Francis suddenly made a change in the Catechism (2267), with regard to the just sentencing to death by the state of identified criminals? We are now taught that the death penalty...
