Fr Anselm Prior OFM: 50 Years a Franciscan!
Leading theologian Fr Anselm Prior OFM (centre) celebrated the golden jubilee of his ordination to the Franciscan priesthood in the chapel […]
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Is There a Difference Between Happiness and Joy?
Fr Ralph de Hahn – Human happiness is dependent on our interaction with other persons, places and moods, and circumstances beyond our control.
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Mass on the Beach: Pope Gives Hope to a Battered City
Encouraging the people of one of Peru’s most battered cities, Pope Francis said the Gospel message can give Christians strength and hope to navigate amid life’s storms.
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A Sense of Trust Through Our Fears
Even in mid-January we still stand on the threshold of a new year and what it holds is as yet unknown. Of course, we have hopes and expectations for this year: the birth of a child, cure for an illness, new beginnings after completing school at a tertiary institution, a first job, the adventure of travel. However, none of these things are a given.
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Marist Music Teacher Scores Big
For Leah Adams, a music teacher at St Joseph’s Marist College in Cape Town, 2017 will be a year to remember: for being a winner of the SA’s Got Talent contest.
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Mass and Blessings of the Vines for Wine Lovers
Winelovers in the Western Cape will again have the chance to celebrate their passion, with Mass, food and wine at both the Blessing of the Vines and the Vintners’ Mass this month.
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200-Year Jubilee: Bishops’ Mass and Street March
The bishops of Southern Africa will celebrate a joint Mass in Pretoria to mark the jubilee of the bicentenary of the Catholic Church in South Africa on January 28 while Catholics in Cape Town are called to join a jubilee Eucharistic procession in early February.
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Free University! But How?
Catholic university chaplains applaud President Jacob Zuma’s announcement to make education at tertiary institutions free for students from lower-income families but are alarmed at the government’s lack of strategy to implement this new policy.
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Catholic Schools Beat National Average Again
It was another year in which Catholic schools outperformed the national average. In the National Senior Certificate (NSC) exams, written by public state schools, Catholic schools recorded an 84,1% pass rate—an improvement over the past two years—against the national average of 74,6%.
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