The Church: Inside and Out
Guest editorial: Michael Shackleton – Like a coin, there are two sides to the Church. One side faces the world around it. The other side is seen and experienced by its faithful people in...
Guest editorial: Michael Shackleton – Like a coin, there are two sides to the Church. One side faces the world around it. The other side is seen and experienced by its faithful people in...
Church / Liturgy / Mass / Pope Francis
by hazelelponiSC · Published February 17, 2019 · Last modified February 15, 2019
The sacred liturgy is meant to help the people of God conform their heart, mind and actions more closely to Christ, Pope Francis said. “We know that it is not enough to change liturgical...
Church / Fr John Allen Green / Mass / Scripture
by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published February 17, 2019 · Last modified February 16, 2019
The plan is perfect! The blueprints have been made and issued to the builders. But hold on Houston, we have a problem. Somehow history has moved on and time and space now occupy another...
Fathers and mothers have the ability and responsibility to lead their families to holiness, wrote Phoenix Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted in an apostolic exhortation. The title of the document, “Complete My Joy,” is taken...
In a position paper on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s 2019 State of the Nation (SONA) address, a Church analyst said that a year after President Jacob Zuma’s departure, the state of South Africa is “politically,...
Prayer is not just a private and intimate dialogue between a person and God, but rather an opportunity for Christians to bring the needs of others before the Lord, Pope Francis said. “There is...
All eyes and ears will be on the Vatican during an unprecedented gathering on Feb. 21-24 to discuss the protection of minors in the Catholic Church. When Pope Francis announced the international meeting in...
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published February 14, 2019 · Last modified February 13, 2019
By Günther Simmermacher – Among the 2245 foreign volunteers at World Youth Day was one South African — and he had to fill many different functions. Denzel Swarts of Cape Town was inspired to volunteer...
Catholic Media / Church / Erin Carelse
by Erin Carelse · Published February 13, 2019 · Last modified February 11, 2019
Radio Veritas’ “Men in Christ—The Essence of the Christian Man” show ended 2018 with a bang, and members are ready, with the Holy Spirit as their guide, to continue their 2019 journey as men...
Church / Erin Carelse / Women and the Church
by Erin Carelse · Published February 13, 2019 · Last modified February 11, 2019
Dr Annemarie Paulin-Campbell of the Jesuit Institute stayed up into the early hours to tune into a live American panel discussion on the future of women deacons, following the submission to Pope Francis of...
Taking their cue from Christ, moral theologians can see that people need to be liberated and healed, not condemned, Pope Francis said. But the earth — humanity’s common home — is also in great...
In the second article in his four-part series on the lives of Little Eden founder Domitilla Rota Hyams and her husband Danny, Daluxolo Moloantoa tells of how three POWs fell for an Italian village girl.