Joy As Pioneering Nun, Sister Sola Schaumann Turns 100!
By Sydney Duval – At the centre of liturgical and community life in Holy Trinity church at Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal, was Franciscan...
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Current and Past Misereor Heads Meet Up
By Sydney Duval – Misereor and Missio are the two big Ms celebrated as active and conscientious Catholic voices for social...
CWD: May this Agency Rise from the Ashes
My personal association with Catholic Welfare & Development (CWD)—the welfare agency of the archdiocese of Cape Town which had...
CWD: Requiem for a Great Organisation
Once it was one of the great welfare organisations of the Southern African Church; in November it closed its doors....
Fr Werner Stafflinger, Rest in Peace
By Sydney Duval – Father Werner Stafflinger died aged 83 at Nazareth House in Cape Town on January 12. Fr...
My Story of the Gentile and the Jew
By Sydney Duval – We arrived in Cape Town on the afternoon of New Year’s Day 1980 after a long...
Inkamana Benedictine Abbey Celebrates its First African Abbot
By Sydney Duval – The blessing and installation of Fr John Paul Mwaniki as the first African abbot of the Benedictine...
Nardini Convent School Melody Threads Through its 60 Years
Nardini Convent School at Vryheid, which began with five pupils in 1957 has celebrated its 60th anniversary with 450 pupils and a reputation for excellence
Monsignor Paul Nadal Has a Garden Named in his Honour
By Sydney Duval – The Denis Hurley Centre in Durban has added a splash of green to the busy commercial hub surrounding it in naming the centre’s upper terrace the Paul Nadal Garden
