What I’ll Teach My Daughters This Christmas
This year is going to be an interesting Christmas. Besides the fact that we are doing things under new and adjusted circumstances due to the Covid-19 pandemic,...
Category: Keenan Williams
It’s a Time to Embrace Change
I have struggled with lower back pain ever since I tried impressing some girls during my early teens. I remember that day so clearly. I was pedalling...
Alyssa Williams Baptised!
Fr Raphael Thomas baptises Alyssa Williams, the younger daughter of Southern Cross columnist Keenan Williams (right), at St Ninian’s church in Kuils River, Cape Town. Holding Alyssa...
We Don’t Sink, We Walk on Water With Him
My heart sank a couple of weeks ago when I read the Southern Cross editorial about the future of the publication. It sank not just because what...
How I See the ‘New Normal’ Church
For the past three months, we have all begun getting used to this “new normal”. Frankly, we got a rough start, but this new way of life...
Drop the Mask and Find God
When I truly found myself was the moment that I found God. And when I found him, I found me too. You see, many people in their...
Why Do We Catholics Look Miserable?
Why does it seem like many of us Catholics always seem to look so miserable? I find it disheartening to see fellow parishioners, and sometimes clergy, walk...
A Church Divided Will Fall
For as long as we identify ourselves as “us” and “them”, we will remain divided—as a nation, but also as a Church. It’s a continuous fight within...
Youth Ministry: Time to be Radical?
For the Extraordinary Mission Month our parish decided to focus much of its attention on evangelisation and getting more “bench-warmers” to become game-changers in a ministry of...
Why Can’t Show That We’re Disciples?
On a Facebook group where citizens of Cape Town are able to dialogue on living in the city, someone posted a picture of rubbish lying in the...
Can We Give In to Jesus?
Many Catholics, it seems to me, don’t really know how to converse with God in prayer. If we say we are a prayerful people, do we really...
Church Cannot Sell God as a Product
‘What do you want to be remembered for?” This was the question my wife recently asked me during our fortnightly date. At first I couldn’t answer the...
