Want To Add To Hope, Joy, Reflection, Healing? Then You Can Do Advent
By Mark Pattison – Compared to Christmas, Easter and Lent, Advent is the Maytag repairman of liturgical seasons. Hardly anybody...
2019
Getting Close To The Sacred Heart
In October a group of Southern Cross pilgrims travelled through Catholic France, and visited the great places of the devotion...
Appeal to Catholic Business Owners!
An educational project in Johannesburg is appealing to Catholic business owners to provide a temporary workplace for learners needing practical...
Pope in Nagasaki: A World Without Nuclear Weapons Is Possible
By Cindy Wooden – Saying it is “perverse” to think the threat of nuclear weapons makes the world safer, Pope Francis...
Staffers Use Retrenchment Payouts to Keep Early Learning Centre Open
Two staff members of a learning centre run by the now-defunct Catholic Welfare Department (CWD) in Cape Town used their...
The Diversity in Catholicism
Some of the protests against the recent Synod of Bishops on the Amazon seemed to insist that there can be...
Pope Arrives In Japan – Decades Later Than He’d Hoped
By Cindy Wooden – Describing himself as a “missionary pilgrim,” Pope Francis finally fulfilled a more than five-decade-old desire to share...
Archbishop Sheen Will Be Beatified On December 21
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen will be beatified Dec. 21, Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria announced. He said the Vatican...
Pope: Having a Friend who is Poor will Help you get to Heaven
By Cindy Wooden – The poor are the church’s treasure because they give every Christian a chance to “speak the same...
