In Lent, Keep Your Eyes on the Cross
During Lent we accompany Jesus on his Passion journey. As we await the glory of the Resurrection at Easter, we...
March 2019
Our Renewal Must Centre on Christ
I don’t have much trust in high-level summits. I really don’t think much is done or achieved by calling an...
Archbishop Slattery: ‘Abusers must be Removed’
Archbishop William Slattery of Pretoria has said that priests who abuse minors must be removed from the priesthood, and...
Crucifixes Stolen During Mass
Oblate crosses, some more than 100 years old, which had been passed down among priests from generation to generation, were...
Anti-Crime Priests on Patrol
Two priests who go on regular patrol for their local Neighbourhood Watches are encouraging other priests to take part in...
Bishop Sipuka: After Summit We Need Action
The Vatican summit on abuse “will be a turning point in the life of the Church — things will not...
Pope: God is purifying the church with ‘unbearable’ pain of abuse scandal
The clerical abuse scandal has caused everyone in the Catholic Church “pain and unbearable suffering,” Pope Francis said, but it...
Improve Yourself this Lent!
By asking us to focus on God, Lent presents us with an opportunity to improve ourselves. FR RALPH DE HAHN...
Pope Lifts 34-year-old Ban on Priest
Pope Francis has lifted the canonical penalties imposed 34 years ago on Fr Ernesto Cardenal, 94, the Nicaraguan poet and...
