Fr Chris Townsend: Diary of an Iron Padre
Fr Chris Townsend pumps iron at gym. Working out is an important part of his daily routine, as a means of managing stress and for health purposes.
2017
Father S’milo Mngadi Shares his Perspective on Life in New Book
In this new book, Collared & Content, Perspectives @ 40, Father S’milo Mngadi shares his views from his 40 years on earth and 15 years as a priest,
Fr Michael D’Annucci: A Great Missionary Remembered
The Italian priest known as Masusumetsa “was a great friend of South Africa, and its people”. These were the words of Nelson Mandela, in remembrance of Fr Michele D’Annucci after the priest’s violent death.
Theology Meeting Put Focus on Reformation
Twenty theologians gathered to discuss various topics around the theme “Reformation: Whose history? Voices from the South” when the Catholic Theological Society of Southern Africa held its annual conference at Koinonia, Johannesburg
Church Anger at Pensions Looting Plan
The Justice & Peace (J&P) Commission of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference has expressed outrage over alleged plans to plunder the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), and the pensions of millions of hardworking government employees and pensioners.
Purgatory, Apocrypha and the Canon of Scripture
2 Maccabees was written 40 years after the event by Jason of Cyrene (M2:23) and belongs to books known as deuterocanonical or apocrypha. They are not part of the inclusive canon of Greek scriptures.
Francistown Declared a Diocese
Francistown in Botswana is now a diocese, in recognition of the growth of the Church in the vicariate over the past 19 years.
Mission of the Youth
Where once missionaries left their homes to convert people who had not heard the Good News, today the message of Christ’s love and sacrifice must be communicated to many of those who have heard but do not embrace it.
What is Our Real Mission?
I am a lay person involved in ministry, aware of the role of the laity in the temporal domain. This self-description sometimes clarifies the idea of mission for me and at others totally confuses it
