Telesales and a point of principles
Saturday morning, and my cellphone rings. On the other side is an amicable fellow, effusively informing me of the privilege […]
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Excommunicated for what?
By Brian Gaybba The reported excommunication of an American priest, Fr Roy Bourgeois, who defends the view that women can
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Turn endless Africa talk into action
The toughest challenge facing the second Synod of Bishops for Africa in Rome this October is conference fatigue. Another meeting
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45 great life lessons
While it may be true that research often shows journalists to be languishing somewhere in between car salesmen and lawyers
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Ntabeni Perspectives
However low you feel, go to Mass
I went to Sunday Mass under the clasps of melancholy. Prayer failed, or at least failed to be directed by
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God doesn’t turn away from us
Pretoria in the 1950s, and a young Catholic boy is tied up in a Jacaranda tree by none other than
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Lesson from a tax office
One day I went to a Receiver of Revenue office to complain about how ruthlessly I had been taxed. I
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The dogs-in-heaven debate
Over the centuries, much has been written about the meaning of life. It seems to me, that if one has
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Perspectives Shackleton
Do we worship the pope?
Please comment on this question asked by a Grade 10 child in my confirmation class: Why do we Catholics worship
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