Category: Perspectives - Page 269

This is Our Purpose in Life

By Emmanuel Ngara / January 3, 2016

What is the purpose of human life? Why did God create you and me? In our attempt to understand the

By Toni Rowland / December 28, 2015

How will Jesus be revealed in the year ahead? This month the Supreme Court of Appeal changed Oscar Pistorius’ conviction

The Examen invites us to look back across the day slowly and meditatively and ask not when was God present?

Did you know that Bethlehem has three official Christmases? Or why the traditional Christmas colours are green and red (and

By Chris Townsend / December 20, 2015

One of the seasonal irritations of any parish office happens around this time. “Father, what time is midnight Mass?” In

By Tony Magliano / December 17, 2015

Seeing Christmas toys under the tree, unwrapping them with excitement, and playing with them for many days to come, is

Becoming a cardinal can give you a spring in your step, as Owen McCann, archbishop of Cape Town, found when

By Mphuthumi Ntabeni / December 13, 2015

Pope Francis did nothing surprising when he wrote his encyclical Laudato Si. The Church has been speaking about the environment

One is horrified by the evil that is terrifying all and sundry these days. How can one explain why the