Fr Gerry O’Reilly: Lockdown in Grahamstown
By Fr Gerry O’Reilly OFM – Lockdown is a new experience for all of us. Three weeks before it officially started, we emptied the holy water fonts, and everyone who came to church had...
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Caring for Seafarers in Corona Times
The Covid-19 restrictions have also limited the work of the Apostleship of the Sea, which provides pastoral care to seafarers. But its port chaplains remain committed to their ministry, as GREG WATTS reports. The global Covid-19...
Lessons Learned in Lockdown Limbo
Lockdown forced schools with the means to do so to switch to remote learning. As the local Church marks Catholic Schools Week, MARK POTTERTON sees promise for the future in that. As soon as it...
Over 20 Pianists Will Play in Online Concert for Denis Hurley Centre!
The Piano Passion Project is organising a thanksgiving concert inspired by jazz musician Darius Brubeck in aid of the Denis Hurley Centre in Durban on May 27. The online concert will feature 18 pianists...
This Was the Man Karol Wojtyla
St John Paul II was a modern-day apostle and the world’s conscience. This is the life of the man born Karol Wojtyła on May 18, 1920. Pope John Paul II, whose centenary of birth...
Bishop Kevin Dowling: We Can Become A Different Kind of Church
The bishop of Rustenburg has said that the current coronavirus crisis is a time to look at the future of the Church. Writing in this week’s edition of the British Catholic journal The Tablet,...
Public Allowed, With Restrictions, For Mass In Italy Starting Mid-May
By Carol Glatz – The Italian bishops and government have agreed on a protocol to allow the public to be present for liturgical celebrations starting May 18. In an effort to avoid spreading the coronavirus,...
Uncorked Theology Goes Digital
A Durban parish has taken its popular Q&A and “Theology Uncorked” sessions into the digital domain during lockdown, broadcasting on its YouTube channel. St Joseph’s parish in Morningside launched its Q&A sessions three years...
From Our Vaults 68 Years Ago: May 7, 1952
SA gets new patron at Durban congress The Church in South Africa celebrated its dedication to a new patron, Our Lady of the Assumption, with a special Marian congress in Durban. About 20 000...
I Imagine: The World of Evangelisation
By Fr Joseph Falkiner OP – All Christians have a joint mission to take to the world: evangelisation. Recent popes, including Pope Francis, have been trying for years to make Catholics aware that the...
Bishops’ Encouragement During Covid-19 Crisis
Several Southern African bishops have encouraged the faithful to be strong during the coronavirus crisis. Archbishop Abel Gabuza, coadjutor of Durban, said during the lockdown “we have witnessed the goodness in many people”. “The...
What We Are Growing at St John Vianney
South Africa’s national St John Vianney seminary is training about 130 men for the priesthood. Lucy Rubin visited the Pretoria campus and met three future priests there. Saint John Vianney Seminary is probably one...
