What Makes Pope Francis So Special?
Pope Francis has taken the world by storm. Despite much of the conflict and intolerance that made headlines lately, the majority of people throughout the world are...
Gushwell Brooks / Perspectives / Pope Francis
by Gushwell Brooks · Published January 10, 2016 · Last modified January 11, 2016
Pope Francis has taken the world by storm. Despite much of the conflict and intolerance that made headlines lately, the majority of people throughout the world are...
Features / Gushwell Brooks / Perspectives / Poverty & Social Justice
by Admin · Published November 15, 2015 · Last modified November 12, 2015
Many Catholic organisations exist with the aim of alleviating the dire need for social justice in today’s world.
Gushwell Brooks / Perspectives
by Gushwell Brooks · Published September 21, 2015 · Last modified September 17, 2015
Pope Francis has been quoted as calling on society to respond to the world’s largest and most severe refugee crisis in recorded history: “May every parish, every...
Gushwell Brooks / Perspectives
by Gushwell Brooks · Published August 23, 2015 · Last modified August 17, 2015
Pope Francis has been aptly described as a rock star. Never, throughout the entirety of history, has a single pontiff drawn as much attention as Pope Francis;...
Johan Viljoen’s religious journey took him from the Dutch Reformed Church via the Anglican priesthood to the Catholic Church. And always his life is devoted to the...
Gushwell Brooks / Perspectives
by Gushwell Brooks · Published May 31, 2015 · Last modified May 29, 2015
Ask Gauteng premier David Makhura or Johannesburg mayor Parks Tau, and they will speak of “a world-class African city”. And it makes sense — with all due...
Gushwell Brooks / Perspectives
by Gushwell Brooks · Published May 4, 2015 · Last modified April 24, 2015
Agency, that human trait that does not leave your belief and ability to influence your fate in the universe to the hands of God alone, but the...
Easter / Gushwell Brooks / Lent / Perspectives
by Gushwell Brooks · Published April 13, 2015 · Last modified April 10, 2015
It is always remarkable to see events leading up to Lent: the Brazilian Carnival, New York parade and the New Orleans Mardi Gras are traditionally events that...
Gushwell Brooks / Perspectives
by Gushwell Brooks · Published March 9, 2015 · Last modified March 6, 2015
About two years ago, while still working full-time in the field of social justice and civil society, my employer — a former cabinet minister under Nelson Mandela...
Gushwell Brooks / Perspectives
by Gushwell Brooks · Published February 8, 2015 · Last modified February 3, 2015
It could be contended that all the governmental responses to terror thus far have provided fertile ground for terrorism to take further root and spread—and unless leaders...
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