How Drama Opens Spaces for Honesty
The National Arts Festival in Grahamstown is always full of surprising drama delights, secular and also sacred. Among the latter...
Perspectives
How Shopping Robs Us of Freedom
Here’s a quiz. Who said this: “Too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is...
Infallible and Indefectible – What’s the Difference?
The Catechism (889) says that Christ who is the Truth, willed to confer on the Church a share in his...
To Whom do we Pray?
St Paul tells us that Jesus stands at the right hand of the Father interceding for us (Rom 8:34) and...
What Would Jesus Really Do?
There are a few moments in the life of the parish priest when his quiet, comfortable day is disturbed so...
Can Widowed Deacons Remarry?
I know a woman married to a deacon. Sadly, she is in poor health and worries that if she dies,...
Priests Who Sin
Please explain the use of the confessional for clergy who have sexual or love affairs but continue to celebrate Mass...
Pray With the Pope: July 2017
General Intention: That our brothers and sisters who have strayed from the faith, through our prayer and witness to...
Why Matthew 25 Haunts Me
Do I see God in the poor as Christ instructed me? Matthew 25:31: All the nations will be gathered in his...
