Why we must not forget
Remembrance Day falls on Sunday, November 11. That is also the day on which I will have my annual Widowed...
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A priest is not a magician
In Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo there are several thousand sects; it’s impossible to know their exact record....
Mass readings – 4 November – 11 November, 2012
Sunday, November 4, 31st Sunday, All Saints Deuteronomy 6:2-6, Psalm 18:2-4, 47, 51, Hebrews 7:23-28, Mark 12:28-34 Monday, November 5,...
Pope: Why we need the Church
By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS)—At his general audience on October 31, the pope underlined the importance...
Witchcraft threatens our children
From Catherine de Valence, Cape Town If one had a passion to bring the Gospel message into the schools, how...
The fine art of listening
‘Remember this, be quick to listen and slow to speak” (James 1:19). How much easier is this said than being...
Newman aimed for bull’s eye
It is not unusual to hear that even when the preacher makes a good start, he covers so many subjects...
Material progress not enough to make people free, happy, pope says
By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The world’s huge technological and scientific progress hasn’t always made people freer or happier, Pope...
‘I believe in the holy Catholic Church…’
Since early Christianity the Church has described herself by the so-called “Four Marks”: one, holy, catholic and apostolic. In Protestant...
