A Brief History of Religious Orders in South Africa
Religious orders and congregations did not just help build the local Church but also the country. Fr Anthony Egan SJ gives a brief history of religious life...
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The Reaffirmation of Conscience
Deep within their conscience, men and women discover a law which they have not laid upon themselves and which they must obey. Its voice, ever calling them...
The Conscience and Martin Luther
What is our conscience? Do we make it up? Does it come from our parents? Our Laws? Or is our conscience “a person’s deepest sense of connection...
Reflection for 1st Sunday in Lent
At that time Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. He fasted for forty days and forty nights, and...
The ‘Other Half’ of the Church
As you may have guessed from the headline this article addresses the subject of women and Vatican II. If Church statistics are reliable, it should in fact...
The Martyr’s Progress
By Fr Anthony Egan SJ –Â On March 24, 1980, a great, holy man was martyred. Oscar Romero, the Catholic archbishop of San Salvador in El Salvador, was...
Reflecting on Lent and 20 years of democracy
As Christians preparing for Easter, the Lenten season offers us a time to reflect on our own faith — our strengths and weaknesses, our commitment to Christ...
Remodelling the Church
In the song “A New Argentina” from the Lloyd Webber/Rice musical Evita, the generals sing: “We face the world together with no dissent from within.” For many, sympathisers...
How to communicate well
Sometimes it seems that we never forgave Gutenberg for inventing his printing press! Though the Church has engaged with various forms of public media from the beginning,...
Religious orders after Vatican II
Religious life, it is said, is in crisis. And, some say, it’s Vatican II that caused all the trouble! Let’s analyse this statement, as dispassionately as possible,...
