Ten Tips For Good Ethics
South Africa was already a country full of people in need. But now the Covid-19 pandemic, and the related economic lockdown, means that there are even more...
Category: Raymond Perrier
Why We Must Face Up To Our Death
This month marks my birthday— which strangely puts me to thinking about death. Of course, the prevailing impact of Covid-19 means that we are all much more...
Why Arts Are Important in Our Lives
As we have moved to Level 3 lockdown, some more elements of what used to be our normality are coming back into place. I see this...
Coronavirus: How Should Churches Respond?
In the period before the lockdown, religious leaders used that precious time to be too inward looking and seemingly less concerned for the poor, and there are...
South Africa’s Time for Resurrection
For many Catholics, this year’s Holy Week is an experience of “virtual church”—those truly observing the lockdown, or people like my parents in their 80s, who are...
The Catholic Church And Human Rights
On March 21 we commemorated the 1960 Sharpeville massacre with Human Rights Day. What greater injustice to human rights can there have been than to regard some...
Lent: A Detox of the Soul
Purification, ritual cleansing and sacrifice are not words that we often hear used by Catholics these days. But, even if the words are not used, they are...
Why Is It So Hard For Us To Say Sorry?
A cheesy cartoon from the 1970s had the slogan, “Love is… never having to say you are sorry”. I think that as Christians we should beg to differ,...
New year, New Budget!
It’s January. You are feeling the aftermath of the excesses of Christmas, New Year, gift-buying, partying and summer holidays. Your pocket and bank account are probably feeling...
From the Margins to the Centre
The sight of people from the Amazon with traditional clothes and instruments participating in a Mass in one of Rome’s grand baroque churches will be one of...
Our Church Must be an Open Club
When he announced the convening of the Second Vatican Council, Pope John XXIII proclaimed that he wanted “to open the windows and doors of the Church so...
We Need to Talk About Mental Health
As a society we are getting better at talking about all kinds of subjects that were once taboo: gender-based violence, diverse sexual orientations, life-threatening illnesses, bullying at...
