German police and prosecutors are launching investigations into clergy sexual abuse following the release of a report containing evidence of 3,700 alleged child sex abuse cases in the Catholic Church over a 68-year-period. Authorities...
The Immaculate Conception is, according to Catholic doctrine, the conception of the Virgin Mary without any stain (immacula, in Latin) of original sin. Hence Mary is sometimes called the Immaculata, or the Immaculate One.
After Islamic terrorists stormed the Algerian monastery he called home, Trappist Father Christian de Cherge — who with 18 others will be beatified on December 8 — felt compelled to put pen to paper and write down his testament.
Sr Bernadette Mtimkulu CPS of Mthatha has been a professed nun for almost 70 years and will turn 100 on November 26. Sr Mary Florence Sitwala cps looks at Sr Bernadette’s long life of...
Vica-Lee Bost, 16, was baptised at the Nazareth House chapel in Cape Town. Vica-Lee is one of the profoundly disabled children at Nazareth House and her parents, parishioners of Our Lady Help of Christians...
Charity / Christian Living / Church
by Jael SC · Published November 15, 2018 · Last modified November 13, 2018
Little Eden, which is home to 300 children and adults with profound intellectual disability, will present its annual Christmas concerts this month. The Domitilla and Danny Hyams Home in Edenvale, Johannesburg, will hold its...
When Father Jim Sichko recalls Tuesdays during his childhood in Orange, Texas, he can almost smell the aroma of his mother’s homemade tomato sauce wafting through their home. Marie Ceraso Sichko was a native...
Have you ever found yourself in a “faith valley?” By that, I mean a place where your spiritual life would really benefit from an answered prayer or an unexpected blessing or something in...
Leaders of all significant South African churches, including the Catholic Church, have condemned the evident “plundering of public resources”, blatant waste of taxpayers’ money, prevailing corruption, and weakening of public institutions.
By Sikhumbuzo Ben – Parishioners in Khayelitsha, Mfuleni and Crossroads in Cape Town were sad to say goodbye to Fr Bafana Ndlovu OMI, who has left for the archdiocese of Johannesburg to minister in Soweto....
Church / Marriage / Pastoral Care / Pope Francis / Vocations
by Jael SC · Published November 3, 2018 · Last modified November 9, 2018
The Sixth Commandment’s mandate against adultery is a call to fidelity that applies not only to married couples, but to all Christians called to love others through their vocation, Pope Francis said. Married men...
The Vatican press office confirmed news reports that human bones had been found during reconstruction work in a building connected to the Vatican Embassy to Italy. Italian media immediately surmised that the bones could...
