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...
Raymond Perrier
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Get The Story From The Homeless
The Denis Hurley Centre in Durban recently launched a campaign with the web-based news site Daily Maverick to invite South...
Mary Magdalene and Me
I share a birthday with Mary Magdalene – her feast day that is. In his article “How Mary Magdalene the...
