Bishops: Catholic Church Extends Condolences to the Families of Mama Madikizela Mandela
The Roman Catholic Church extends sincere sympathies to the Madikizela and Mandela families on the passing of the matriarch, Nomzama...
2018
To Try and Love is to Know God
As an old man looking back over his life as a Christian, as someone who had walked and talked with Jesus, had listened to him preaching, seen him die and had experienced him as risen again — as he approached death, the apostle John found himself writing increasingly about the centrality of love.
Witbank Diocese Focuses on Using Media Tools in Evangelisation
The Witbank diocesan clergy met to discuss pastoral issues, present reports, and look at the important role that communication and the media play in today’s new evangelisation.
How Seminary Tackles Cape Town’s Water Crisis!
Seminarians from provinces around South Africa at St Francis Orientation Seminary are getting used to life in drought-stricken Cape Town.
Warning: Workers may Lose in New Labour Law
Dr Carin Runciman spoke at a Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office seminar. She is seen above with CPLO economic and social...
Renowned US leader for Contemplative Outreach SA Conference
A leading expert on Centering Prayer will guide Contemplative Outreach South Africa’s national conference in April. Rev Dr Cynthia Bourgeault of the Contemplative Society in the US will lead the conference, which will be held from April 27 to May 1 at the Padre Pio Retreat Centre in Centurion.
Still Seeking the Mountaintop: 50 years after Martin Luther King’s Assassination
Father Pat Connor was on his way from a graduate class at the University of Memphis to St. Joseph Hospital to visit a priest friend the evening of April 4, 1968.
Pope Francis: Urbi et Orbi Message 2018
Jesus is risen from the dead! This message resounds in the Church the world over, along with the singing of the Alleluia: Jesus is Lord; the Father has raised him and he lives forever in our midst.
Christians are all Alter Christus
The reality is that all people who are baptised into Christ are also “another Christ”. The emphasis on the specialness of a priest as alter Christus is the source of the sin of clericalism and its manifestations as clerical privilege.
