After Zoom Meeting, SA Churches May Now Open
BY ERIN CARELSE & STAFF REPORTERS The archbishop of Cape Town and other faith leaders met with President Cyril Ramaphosa in a Zoom meeting ahead of the...
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SACBC President on Ways to Limit Mass Attendances to 100
After a day of consultation following President Cyril Ramaphosa’s instruction to restrict public gatherings to 100 in South Africa’s battle to check the spread of...
New ‘army’ took to township’s street
Curious people watched as a young girl dressed in rustic clothes rode a donkey in the streets of Wallacedene township near Kraaifontein in Cape Town....
A useful guide to the story of St Bernadette
LOURDES 2019, by Paul De Marco. Published by lulu.com. 2018. 168pp Reviewed by Günther Simmermacher In terms of annual visitors, Lourdes is the world’s third-biggest...
Can business methods fix SA Church?
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH—200 YEARS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: The Six Transitional Phases, by Marumagae Moshe. SA Catholic Online Books. 2019. 153pp. Reviewed by Günther Simmermacher South...
Priest shows the way to ‘becoming love’
BECOME LOVE: Gradual Growth and Transformation from John to Francis, by Larry Kaufmann CSsR. Redemptorist Pastoral Publications. 2019. 180pp Reviewed by Tally Palmer I am...
A township priest in the struggle
TOWNSHIP GOD: More Than Meets the Eyes, by Paddy Noonan OFM. Write-on Publishing, 2017. 244pp. R195 Reviewed by Mandla Zibi Although it might at first...
Retreat Helps Ease Rural Priests’ Isolation
By Selby Makgotho – Priests in rural areas are often isolated from one another, so it is important that they come together from time to time,...
Exclusive: Talk on John Bradburne by his friend
On September 5, 1979 the English mystic, poet and lay Franciscan John Bradburne was executed by rogue ZANU guerrillas fighting in the Zimbabwean Independence War....
Bishop: Rise Up Against Attacks On Women!
After the spate of brutal attacks on women, including rape and murder, BISHOP VICTOR PHALANA is calling for a change in attitudes, calling on women...
The life of a model of Catholic Social Teaching
ANNE HOPE: The Struggle for Freedom, Stephanie Kilroe. Darton, Longman & Todd. 2019. 155pp. Reviewed by Fr Larry Kaufmann CSsR What a joy it is...
Italian Consul Visits Neocat Seminary
Italian consul Emanuele Pollio, visiting the Redemptoris Mater seminary of the Neocatechumenal Way in Rondebosch, Cape Town, said the seminary is important as it gives strength...
