Young couples need help when they begin their life together. Family life ministry activist Mahadi Buthelezi tells ERIN CARELSE about a seminar she and her husband Rob have introduced to give such couples the skills for happiness together forever.
Sacred Heart College in Observatory, Johannesburg, marked the new school year with each Grade 1 pupil having a turn at ringing the school chapel’s bell, symbolising the beginning of their school careers.
Catholics should use the season of Lent to look for signs and symptoms of being under the spell of false prophets and of living with cold, selfish and hateful hearts, Pope Francis said.
Religious Sisters are special, and even non-Catholics love and respect them, because they “present Christ in a striking manner”, a bishop told a Mass to celebrate the profession of a Precious Blood Sister.
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Everyone who goes to Mass has the right to hear the word of God in all its fullness, which means it must be read well and explained well with “fervour”, Pope Francis said.
The Congregation for the Causes of Saints approved has the second miracle needed for the canonisation of Blessed Pope Paul VI, allowing his canonisation to take place, possibly later this year.
Cape Town’s Salesian community honoured five long-serving board members with a prestigious medal from the order. Long-serving board members were awarded the Rector Major Medal in recognition of their services to the Salesians and their special ministry to needy youth.
Pope Francis is in the midst of the worst crisis in his papacy of almost five years.The Holy Father has a good record of saying the right things on the sex abuse scandal.So there was understandable indignation at comments in response to protests against a bishop accused of having known about the abuses of a priest.
The way the Church has observed Lent has changed since the early days of the Church. Professor MICHAEL OGUNU charts the development of Lent, and explains how we best follow the 40 days leading up to Easter today.
