South Africa’s Time for Resurrection
For many Catholics, this year’s Holy Week is an experience of “virtual church”—those truly observing the lockdown, or people like my parents in their 80s, who are...
Category: Easter
Our Easter In a Desert
This is a very unusual Easter. We are in a national lockdown. Our freedom of movement has been completely curtailed for the greater good. We miss walking...
Pope’s Easter Message: Calls For A ‘Contagion’ Of Easter Hope, Peace, Care For Poor
By Cindy Wooden – In an Easter celebration like no other, Pope Francis prayed that Christ, “who has already defeated death and opened for us the way to...
Our Easter In A Time Of Adversity And Hope
Guest editorial by Sheila Pires – ‘I have seen the Lord,” announced Mary Magdalene to the disciples. The last weeks of Lent have put many of us...
Have You Found Jesus?
I think it is relevant to repeat how Christ has been marginalised, how he has been constrained, reduced to Lord of the poor and of the sick,...
Shroud of Turin Livestreaming on Holy Saturday
On Holy Saturday as Christians contemplate Jesus lying in the tomb, Archbishop Cesare Nosiglia of the archdiocese of Turin will lead a liturgy of prayer and contemplation...
Easter Sunday Reflection
There is a bit of the Pharisee within each one of us; “don’t disturb me with your alternate reality, I know what I know and that is...
Pope Encourages Catholics To Contemplate ‘Seven Sorrows’ Of Mary
By Cindy Wooden – Pope Francis asked people to keep a long tradition of Catholic piety by focusing on “the suffering and sorrows of Our Lady.” “Honor...
Way of the Cross: Stabat Mater
What is the Stabat Mater? The “Stabat Mater” (the “Mother was Standing”) is a 13th-century Catholic hymn about Mary’s pain at the foot of her Son’s cross. The...
Why the Earth Trembled and All Went Dark
As Jesus died on the cross, the earth trembled and everything went dark. Paul de Marco inspects these phenomena. Thomas refused to believe that Jesus had risen...
Path To The Passion 5: Jesus Dies On the Cross – And Christ Is Risen
Follow Jesus’ Path to the Passion In this five-part series we will follow the paths of Jesus in the weeks and days before his crucifixion. By its...
Path to the Passion 4: The Two Trials Of Jesus
Follow Jesus’ Path to the Passion In this five-part series we will follow the paths of Jesus in the weeks and days before his crucifixion. By its...
