Get Ready for Jubilee Year 2025
As we prepare for the Jubilee Year 2025, which begins on Christmas Eve, Pope Francis has called us to prepare with a Year of Prayer. Fr Runaine...
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SA Cardinal Stephen Brislin takes possession of Rome church
By Fr Runaine Radine, Photos: Liandro Mensah – Cardinal Stephen Brislin of Cape Town has taken canonical possession of his titular church. It is an ancient custom...
We are Blessed to Have Mary
In our Catholic devotion, the month of August is dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The feast of the Assumption, in the middle of this month,...
Priests: A Truly Essential Service
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement in late May that places of worship may reopen for public worship during Level 3 of the nationwide lockdown was met with mixed...
Fr Runaine Radine: My First Easter as a Priest
About a year ago I was preparing earnestly for my priestly ordination. For me, as I would imagine is the case with all newly-ordained priests, the “firsts”...
How To Deepen Our Faith This Year
There are many ways in which we can deepen our faith, and Fr Runaine Radine suggests some. The new civil year began on the Octave of the...
Why We Must Walk With Saints
The month of November is punctuated by a number of important feast days in the Roman calendar, beginning with All Saints Day. It has long been a...
Why ‘Baby Priests’ Get Together
Archbishop Stephen Brislin and priests who have been in ministry for five years or less. Priestly formation never stops. That’s why “baby priests” — those, like myself,...
A ‘Hangover’ After My Ordination
For the past year or so, there have been moments of great joy in the lives of us 15 young men, who completed their formation at St...
Why do I Still Want to be a Priest?
By Rev Runaine Radine – During Lent, and especially Holy Week, I always think about the time I was an altar boy. In my home parish, as it...
