Bishops / Christian Leadership / Christian Living / lay ministry
by Erin Carelse · Published May 29, 2019 · Last modified May 27, 2019
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...
Christian Leadership / Christian Living / Church / Erin Carelse
by Erin Carelse · Published April 25, 2019 · Last modified April 24, 2019
South Africa’s Catholic university will be offering a short course in Christian business leadership (CBL) based on the teachings, philosophy and pedagogy of Fr Joseph Kentenich, applied to the world of business as an...
Christen Torres / Christian Leadership / Schools / Youth
by Christen Torres · Published December 5, 2018
IT costs up to R100000 to train a guide dog for the blind, and the South African Guide-Dogs Association for the Blind (GDA) has various programmes to raise money for the training of the dogs.
Fr Michael Seheri, of the archdiocese of Johannesburg, has lived in Italy since June 2010. He successfully defended his doctoral thesis, “The Abrahamic Covenant: A Study From a Canonical Perspective”, at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (or Santa Croce).
Christian Leadership / Church / Women and the Church
by Caleb SC · Published November 16, 2018 · Last modified November 15, 2018
Catholic Women Speak conference in Rome. A South African representative to a Catholic women’s conference in Rome last month has called for a synod on women. At the Catholic Women Speak conference in Rome, she noted that the needs of Catholic women in Africa or India differ from those in Europe or the US.
Christen Torres / Christian Leadership / Faith Life
by Christen Torres · Published November 15, 2018 · Last modified November 14, 2018
Bernadette Chellew’s Praying the Scriptures: 8 Chapters of Lectio Divina Reflections makes use of Judeo-Christian Scriptures, as well as the ancient Lectio Divina practice of scriptural reading, meditation and prayer, with the author promising to explore the “eight aspects of prayer” with readers.
Christen Torres / Christian Leadership / Crisis
by Christen Torres · Published October 9, 2018 · Last modified October 8, 2018
The brutal attack on a Pretoria study house in which a priest and a seminarian were injured in late September followed an onslaught of crimes against churches over the past few months—but “the Church will continue its work of ministry and service”, Archbishop William Slattery vowed
Christian Leadership / Christian Mission / Church
by Erin Carelse · Published August 15, 2018 · Last modified August 14, 2018
Catholic firefighter Sipho Mataka will be running the Mandela Marathon on August 26 to raise money for the Denis Hurley Centre in Durban. Mr Mataka, 39, from New Hanover in KwaZulu-Natal, is no stranger...
by Erin Carelse · Published June 16, 2018 · Last modified June 18, 2018
Following several conversations with Catholics in business and industry, it was felt that there needed to be a body where they could integrate faith and work;
Christian Leadership / Christian Living / Family / Mary / Rowland
by Toni Rowland · Published May 8, 2018 · Last modified May 6, 2018
Ideally two parents belong together, ideally too a dad and a mom. But this is not necessarily the case today as more children are being brought up by single moms than in two-parent families.
by Emmanuel Ngara · Published April 19, 2018 · Last modified April 18, 2018
One of the very first things good leaders do is to paint a picture of where the organisation needs to go and to show their followers how to work towards the goal that the organisation needs to achieve.
by Emmanuel Ngara · Published February 28, 2018 · Last modified February 26, 2018
We have been dealing with various aspects of leadership development in this series of articles. Before we bring the series to a close, we need to clarify a number of issues. One of these is the meaning of the word “leadership”.
