Bishop Giuseppe Sandri of Witbank Dies at 72
Bishop Giuseppe Sandri of Witbank will be remembered as a fine pastor with an irrepressible sense of humour. Bishop Sandri died at the age of 72 on Ascension Thursday, May 30, at Midstream Mediclinic...
Category: Bishops
Cardinal Napier’s Message to the Two Bishops Men’s Conference!
The Two Bishops Men’s Conference was held at Holy Family College in Glenmore, Durban. Cardinal Wilfrid Napier sent the following message: “What a pleasure and privilege to be given a key part to play...
Act by Setting up Abuse Committees
Mervyn Pollitt, Waterfall, KZN – As reported in an interview with Ricardo da Silva SJ on Spotlight.Africa, Sr Hermenegild Makoro CPS, general-secretary of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference, called for action rather than...
South African Bishops to New President: Focus on Jobs, Ending Corruption
By Bronwen Dachs – With general elections over, South Africa’s Catholic bishops urged the new president to focus on jobs for young people and rooting out state corruption. “We call on the ruling party to...
Archbishop Buti Tlhagale: ‘Attacks on migrants trash Mandela legacy’
By Erin Carelse – When South Africans hurl insults and inflict violence on migrants, strip them of their belongings, and set their businesses alight, they recklessly go against the solemn oath of Nelson Mandela that...
Cardinal Napier’s New Book: The Here and Now Christian
Cardinal Wilfrid Napier hopes his new book, The Here and Now Christian, will be bought not just for curiosity’s sake, but that it will inspire people about the issues raised. The book includes Cardinal...
Bishops: What Catholics Must Know Before Voting
The exercise of the right to vote is a sacred duty, and the Church expects voters to make sound moral judgments based on the truths and tenets of our faith, according to Bishop Victor...
Bishops: Don’t Abuse ‘Gift of the Car’
By Mandla Zibi – With more road carnage expected this Easter holidays, Bishop Sithembele Sipuka of Mthatha said Christians should apologise for having abused the “gift of the car” when driving. The prelate, who...
SA Church Gives Cyclone Aid
After the devastating impact of Cyclone Idai in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, the Jesuits in South Africa are collecting donations in cash or kind (clothes, blankets, non-perishable food) for those affected, to be distributed...
We have No Role At All in Electing our Bishops
Sue Rakoczy IHM,Cedara, KZN – All that Raymond Perrier says in his column “Why we have to plan for successors” (February 27) is true, but a larger issue is at stake. What role do...
Archbishop Buti Tlhagale: Welcome the Stranger
When we fail to welcome the migrant and the refugee, we fail the Gospel, according to ARCHBISHOP BUTI TLHAGALE OMI of Johannesburg. Male and female, he created them. He created them both in his own image....
Archbishop Slattery: ‘Abusers must be Removed’
Archbishop William Slattery of Pretoria has said that priests who abuse minors must be removed from the priesthood, and those who cover up their crimes must be “dealt with”. Noting that the Southern...
