Monsignor Barney McAleer heads back to Ireland
By Sheila Pires – “It feels great. I’m very, very content. I’m very happy,” says Monsignor Barney McAleer as he prepares to go back to his home...
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Bishop Sipuka: Successful Ad Limina and Visit to Missionaries
Bishop Sithembele Sipuka reflects on the SACBC’s Ad Limina Visit to Rome – exactly who the bishops met and what they discussed. Photos: Bishop Stanisław Dziuba I...
Archbishop Dabula Mpako’s Homily at Ad Limina Closing Mass
Archbishop Dabula Mpako: We conclude our Ad Limina Visit to Rome by celebrating Mass at this very important basilica. This Basilica of St Mary Major was built...
Archbishop Buti Tlhagale’s Homily at St Paul Outside the Walls
Archbishop Tlhagale: “Our moral authority derives from our ordination” By Sheila Pires – The moral authority of Bishops and priests derives from one’s ordination, the Archbishop of...
Bishop Robert Mphiwe: Retreats offer renewal and sabbatical for priests in need
By Sheila Pires – The renewal programmes offered to Diocesan and Religious Priests by the Clergy Department of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC) are meant to help...
Cardinal Napier: Ad Limina Visit is “when the Local Church can interact with the Universal Church”
By Sheila Pires – The Ad Limina visit is “an occasion for the local church to interact with the universal church,” says the Archbishop Emeritus of Durban Archdiocese....
Bishop Sipuka: Ad Limina Visit a “symbolic expression of the unity of Bishops with the Pope”
By Sheila Pires, SACBC – The planned Ad Limina Visit of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC) is a “symbolic expression of the unity of bishops...
Archbishop Mpambani to New Bishop: Be Guided by the Holy Spirit
By Sheila Pires – The newly ordained Bishop of Ingwavuma Vicariate has been urged to be a “Shepherd who unites his flock” to build unity in the...
Newly Ordained Bishop Elias Zondi to Prioritise “Church Structures” in Durban Archdiocese
By Sheila Pires, SACBC – The newly ordained Auxiliary Bishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Durban has said that one of his priorities will be to ensure...
Bishop Selemela to Catholic Women: Your mission as Catholic women is Discipling the Girl Child
By Sheila Pires, SACBC – The Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Pretoria has called on Catholic women to “mentor and animate the girl child”. Addressing women...
