Journaling Deepens Daily Bible Readings
Tom Drake, Johannesburg – For years now Catholics have been able to acquire a booklet with the daily Mass readings,...
August 2018
Does Contraception Feed Violence Against Women?
The widespread use of contraception has led to increased violence and aggression against women, the theologian of the papal household...
Uganda Martyrs Inspire Cause for Benedict Daswa
Bishop Hugh Slattery MSC – Recently a small group of pilgrims from the diocese of Tzaneen went to Uganda to...
Sedgefield Parish Celebrates its Feast Day of St Anthony!
Every year on the feast day of its patron, St Anthony’s church in Sedgefield, near Knysna, organises a dinner for...
Pope: Fear and Uncertainty Lead to a ‘Do-it-Yourself’ Religion
Like the ancient Israelites, Christians today also can fall into the temptation of creating their own idols when difficulties and...
A New Scandal
In recent weeks, religious Sisters from a congregation in Chile told national television their stories of abuse by priests and other nuns — and how those in authority knew but failed to protect them. In India, a nun filed a formal charge against a bishop whom she accused of having raped her.
When May Non-Catholics Receive Communion?
While some German bishops have decided that non-Catholic spouses of Catholics may receive Communion in individual cases according to pastoral needs, inter-Communion in Southern Africa is governed by the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference’s “Directory on Ecumenism”, which was approved by the Holy See and released in 2003.
19th Sunday of the Year Reflection
What does it mean to have life until the age to come? All of us live as though we have...
Where is the Real Place of the Tranfiguration?
Tradition holds that the Transfiguration of Jesus took place on Mount Tabor, the 586 metre-high bluff which overlooks the Jezreel (or Esdraelon) plains.
