Where is God in Business?
Despite Yahweh’s admonitions on the consequences of Israel wanting a monarch, he allows them to anoint Saul as king (1 Samuel 8:10-22). Young women were required to work in the palace (as perfumers, cooks...
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God Gives What We Don’t Share
God has provided generously for our physical needs, as the Gospel of Matthew tells us (6:25-34). He is a provident God who has blessed us with resources and talents to “subdue” the earth (Gen...
Whatever our Job, God is Boss
In the Book of Genesis we read: “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it” (Genesis 2:28). Happily, we have obeyed the first command, to be fruitful and fill the earth (although not...
Why Church and Politics Must Mix
I once preached that as God had incarnated himself into our world, so he wants to be incarnated into all aspects of our lives, including politics. There was a sharp silence, as if people...
The Church on Property: Who Does it Belong To?
The Catholic Church confidently sees itself as Mother and Teacher of all nations (Mater et Magister, 1961), a pillar and ground of truth. It communicates its social teachings in order to Christianise the conditions...
Catholic Social Teaching: Why Church Cares about Economics
In 1993, Pope John Paul II set up a foundation to promote dialogue between Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and the social sciences, and to promote the Church’s social doctrine. The Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice...
What Church Has to Say about Sports
By Fr Pierre Goldie – In my first column I concluded that we have excluded Christ from many key areas of society — including politics, business, education, entertainment, sport, science and other areas —...
Catholic Social Teachings: The Church Reaching Into the Real World
By Father Pierre Goldie – Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical on mission (1975), contends that the split between the Gospel and culture – real life — is one of the dramas of our...
Parents, Teach Your Children Well
Fr Pierre Goldie, Cape Town – Imagine Mrs Jones relating the life of Christ to her children in 2025 in the following way:
Sin, Out of Fashion? A Meditation on an Unpopular Word
Sin has a serious effect on our inner happiness and sense of peace. Sin, a Three-fold Effect I have not specialised in the study of Moral Theology, so I wonder why I hear some...
