SA and the US of A
The recent visit of President Obama, and now this week’s celebration of July 4, the US day of independence, has...
Raymond Perrier
Careless with words
‘Bad money drives out good.” Even though that saying is 500 years old, it strikes me that it is a...
What do you know?
While in many respects a hugely rich language, English is poorer in having only one word for “know”. Other languages...
Religious Practices: Is Our Faith just Cultural?
Of course, said the smooth-tongued psychologist from the capital, it’s not really religion, Â it’s culture. Thus, the deeply-felt practices of millions are dismissed by those who cannot understand how the absurdity of medieval religion has survived into a modern age.
Human rights and the Catholic Church
On March 21 we commemorate the 1960 Sharpeville massacre with Human Rights Day. And church leaders, nationally and locally, will...
Shift from mosquito net to internet
‘Your Eminence, Your Beatitude, Your Grace, your Excellencies, Your Paternity, Monsignor, Reverend Fathers, Reverend Brothers, Esteemed Professors, Ladies and Gentlemen.” ...
Keeping those New Year resolutions
This is the first of a monthly column in which I intend to explore no more and no less some...
