2017
Keeping the Garden Green: Vatican uses Essential Oils on Outdoor Art
The Vatican Museums and the Vatican City governor’s office – which includes the gardeners – are involved in a five-year project to develop ecologically friendly cleaning agents and techniques to clean, restore and maintain the 570 works of art on display outside. Those works include fountains, statues and stone plaques.
Church Groups Dump Fossil Fuel
Forty Catholic institutions worldwide, including the social welfare agency of the archdiocese of Cape Town and the Belgian bishops’ conference, have decided to divest from fossil fuel companies.
New Women’s Support Ministry: My Sister’s Keeper
The Durban parish of Christ the King in Wentworth has started a new ministry called My Sister’s Keeper.
Humanae Vitae is Truly Justified
In 1968 Pope Paul VI issued the papal encyclical Humanae Vitae, now an integral part of Catholic teaching, which prohibited all artificial birth control because of the following principles
Who exactly wrote John’s gospel?
Recently our Bible group learnt of the theories about who was the real author of the Gospel of St John....
Monsignor Paul Nadal Has a Garden Named in his Honour
By Sydney Duval – The Denis Hurley Centre in Durban has added a splash of green to the busy commercial hub surrounding it in naming the centre’s upper terrace the Paul Nadal Garden
Christianity a ‘Yes’ to our Deepest Desires
The core of Christopher West’s message is to show that despite what the culture thinks, Christianity is at its heart a ‘yes’ religion and not a ‘no’ religion
Old Bones Inspire Me: Relics in Rome
As you walk around the “Eternal City” — and I walked 50km in four days — you are conscious that you are treading on the bones of the past.
