Pope: Advent is an opportunity to get off pedestal of superiority
By Carol Glatz, CNS — The season of Advent is a moment of grace to help believers stop being presumptuous...
December 2022
Why We Cannot Share Communion
By Fr Francois Dufour SDB, Cape Town – The intercommunion debate keeps re-emerging as a source of grievance and as...
Our Eyes on Christ
Why was it forbidden in Judaism to show the face of God, but allowed in Christianity? St John Damascene, who...
Ex-SA ambassador to Vatican dies in Rome
The former South African ambassador to the Holy See, George Johannes, died suddenly on November 30 in Rome. The 77-year-old...
Pope Urges: Keep the Creche in Christmas
By Cindy Wooden, CNS – Stopping to gaze at and perhaps pray before a Nativity scene is one of the...
Priest reflects on 10th anniversary of Sandy Hook school shooting
By Beth Griffin, CNS – Ten years ago, Newtown, Connecticut was catapulted into the international spotlight when a young man...
Asia Bibi advocates for Pakistanis accused of blasphemy
By CNS – Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Catholic woman who escaped death for alleged blasphemy and who now lives in Canada,...
Great Celebration as Inkamana Abbey turns 100
By Emmanuel Suntheni OSB – With ululation and overwhelming joy, the monks of Inkamana Abbey celebrated 100 years of their...
New book combines the Holy Rosary and the life of St Benedict with the Holy Scriptures
The monks of Inkamana Abbey celebrated their 100-year anniversary on November 5. At the end of the celebration in the...
