Foreigners, Locals Share Views Of One Another
The Justice & Peace Commission (J&P), with the help of the Commission for Refugees and Migrants, hosted a workshop on social cohesion to create a space for foreign nationals and South Africans to help...
Category: Features
Street Renamed for Paddy Kearney
The late Paddy Kearney, founder of the Denis Hurley Centre and former director of the Diakonia Council of Churches, will have Cathedral Mall, a pedestrianised walkthrough in Durban, renamed in his honour. The...
Pope: Refusing God’s Generosity is a Sin
In life, Christians face the choice of either being open to encountering God’s generosity or closed in on their own interests, Pope Francis said. The banquet that Jesus often refers to in his parables...
Why We Can’t Close Doors On Criminals
The way that society deals with crime and those who have committed them needs a new vision, a priest says. Christen Torres reports. South Africa has the highest prison population in the whole of...
Pope: Catechism Will be Updated to Include Ecological Sins, Hate Sins
Following through on a proposal made at the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon, Pope Francis said there are plans to include a definition of ecological sins in the church’s official teaching. “We should...
Sin, Confession and Penance
As a sinner, I find myself confessing the same sins repeatedly. I have discovered that the priest gives a variety of penances for the same sin. This makes me wonder. Sin is an act...
Youth Ministry: Time to be Radical?
For the Extraordinary Mission Month our parish decided to focus much of its attention on evangelisation and getting more “bench-warmers” to become game-changers in a ministry of their choice. As the coordinator of my...
I’m #AngryForJustice
Can the #newnobility actually do any good? I recently noticed that a certain established bank — the editor won’t let me use its name, but it has green in its logo—recently supported international polo...
Getting Close To Lourdes’ St Bernadette
In October a group of Southern Cross pilgrims travelled through Catholic France, and visited Lourdes, where St Bernadette saw Our Lady, and Nevers, where Bernadette died. GÜNTHER SIMMERMACHER looks back at two inspiring visits....
Justice & Peace Warns Govt to Get Waterwise
The head of the bishops’ Justice & Peace Commission has called for a ten-year moratorium on mining in 22 strategic water source areas across South Africa. The response to the water crisis in South...
The German Association of Catholic Communicators Visit Cape Town!
Posing with a sculpture of Nelson Mandela on the balcony of Cape Town’s City Hall were members of a group of the German association of Catholic communicators. The group met with Catholic journalists and...
Br Martin Thompson OFM Rest in Peace
By Paddy Noonan OFM – Franciscan Brother Martin Thompson died on September 29 in Ireland. He was born as George Thompson in Dublin on November 4, 1934, and after his education at Belvedere College,...
