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,...
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,...
Church / Crisis / Keenan Williams
by Keenan Williams · Published September 29, 2020 · Last modified September 25, 2020
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...
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...
Church / Jesus / Keenan Williams
by Keenan Williams · Published July 28, 2020 · Last modified July 26, 2020
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...
Christian Living / Church / Crisis / Keenan Williams
by Keenan Williams · Published June 8, 2020 · Last modified June 5, 2020
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...
Christian Living / Church / Dealing With Life / Depression &Suicide / Keenan Williams
by Keenan Williams · Published April 20, 2020 · Last modified April 16, 2020
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...
Christian Living / Church / Keenan Williams
by Keenan Williams · Published March 3, 2020 · Last modified March 7, 2020
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...
by Keenan Williams · Published January 14, 2020 · Last modified January 9, 2020
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...
Christian Living / Church / Keenan Williams / Parish Life / Youth
by Keenan Williams · Published November 19, 2019 · Last modified November 14, 2019
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...
Christian Living / Church / Gospel / Keenan Williams
by Keenan Williams · Published September 24, 2019 · Last modified September 19, 2019
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...
by Keenan Williams · Published August 5, 2019 · Last modified September 10, 2019
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...
Christian Living / Church / Keenan Williams
by Keenan Williams · Published May 28, 2019 · Last modified May 27, 2019
‘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...
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