German police and prosecutors are launching investigations into clergy sexual abuse following the release of a report containing evidence of 3,700 alleged child sex abuse cases in the Catholic Church over a 68-year-period. Authorities...
The Norbertine Fathers at St. Michael’s Abbey in Silverado, California, just opened their doors, so to speak, to the world at large. The priests and seminarians who live a monastic life at the abbey...
by Mphuthumi Ntabeni · Published December 11, 2018 · Last modified December 10, 2018
The archdiocese of Cape Town, where I live, has just finished another season of Ecclesia, titled “The Church is an Open Door”. This season focused on the spirituality of social justice. For most of...
I would like to convey the joy of being a priest. Throughout the month of November, I have been giving retreats to different sodalities at the parish where I serve, St Charles Lwanga in Botshabelo, in the archdiocese of Bloemfontein.
Catholic bishops have expressed hope that Pope Francis will canonise Blessed John Henry Newman in 2019 after Vatican medics said the inexplicable healing of a U.S. mother was a miracle attributable to his intercession....
Church / Religious Life / Women and the Church
by asiel · Published December 11, 2018 · Last modified December 10, 2018
The International Union of Superiors General (USIG) has called on women religious who have suffered abuse to come forward and report it to their congregations and Church and state authorities. “If the union...
The annual unveiling of the Vatican’s Christmas tree and Nativity scene brought some much-needed warmth to people’s hearts as winter approached. Hundreds of people in St. Peter’s Square applauded as white curtains unfurled, revealing...
Holy Cross Sister Ainé Hughes cuts her 70th birthday cake at a surprise lunch held for her at the Holy Cross Sisters’ School in Belville, Cape Town. With her is Sr Kizita Makanda. (Submitted by...
A 24-year-old woman dumped sulfuric acid on a priest while he was hearing confessions in the Managua cathedral. Father Mario Guevara, 59, was immediately taken to the hospital and treated for burns. The Archdiocese...
In South Africa, Muslims constitute about 2% of the total population. Because both Islam and Christianity are Abrahamic religions, the two faiths echo in key beliefs and practices. Considering the fundamental elements of the...
Advent / Church / Fr John Allen Green / Scripture
by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published December 9, 2018 · Last modified December 8, 2018
A moment in time and in an instant everything changes; death, disease, accidents or that moment when we first recognise the love of our lives. Although it does and will continue to happen to...
The Immaculate Conception is, according to Catholic doctrine, the conception of the Virgin Mary without any stain (immacula, in Latin) of original sin. Hence Mary is sometimes called the Immaculata, or the Immaculate One.
