Christian Living – walking in the Kingdom of God. Living life Coram Deo – before the face of God requires us to have a healthy prayer life, sound doctrine, Gospel -centred repentance and gratitude and a fruitful involvement in the Body of Christ, that is, Church and the sacraments.
The president of Microsoft, Brad Smith, told Pope Francis that a “human voice” was needed to speak up in the world of technology today. “A human voice like that of the church” with its...
Christian Living / Sarah-Leah Pimentel
by Sarah-Leah Pimentel · Published February 19, 2019 · Last modified February 18, 2019
I played a virtual reality game for the first time at a recent team-building event at work. At first it was really strange putting on the headset which immerses you in the virtual reality...
A life lived selfishly, corruptly or filled with hate is a life that is useless, shrivels up and dies, Pope Francis said in a morning homily. On the other hand, life has meaning and...
Christian Living / Church / Erin Carelse
by Erin Carelse · Published February 9, 2019 · Last modified February 7, 2019
Salesian Life Choices, a lay organisation under the Don Bosco ethos, has started a social enterprise called Nurturer, a range of local, affordable, earth-friendly personal care and cleaning products. All the net profit generated...
Retreats are being offered in Cape Town and Johannesburg for anyone who has been affected by the trauma of abortion. The Rachel’s Vineyard Weekend retreats in March and May are for anyone who has...
Charles Schulz, in his “Peanuts” comic strip, coined the adage, “Happiness is a warm puppy.” However, the results of a wide-ranging study that surveyed the attitudes of people in as many as 35 countries...
Christian Living / Church / Crisis / Dealing With Life / Depression &Suicide / Divorce / Erin Carelse
by Erin Carelse · Published January 22, 2019 · Last modified January 21, 2019
A parish in Johannesburg will host another round of Divorce Care and Grief Share programmes, each running for 13 weeks, as of February. These programmes, offered by St John’s parish in North Riding, are...
Christian Living / Church / lay ministry / Parish Life / Sodality
by Kilian SC · Published January 15, 2019 · Last modified January 11, 2019
A group of nine young men aged 12-17 from St Raphael’s church in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, after completing their two years of training, were received by parish priest Fr Matthew Ledo AJ as the...
by Mphuthumi Ntabeni · Published January 15, 2019 · Last modified January 14, 2019
At first I thought Tiffany Watt Smith’s little book Schadenfreude: The Joy of Another Misfortune addressed the weirdest of topics — until I started reading it. It turned out to be the liveliest read...
Christian Living / Crisis / News
by Kilian SC · Published January 12, 2019 · Last modified January 11, 2019
No sooner had President Donald Trump finished his Jan. 8 nine-minute speech, his first such event televised in prime time from the Oval Office, about what he termed a crisis at the border, than...
Christian Living / Crisis / Magliano / War and Refugees
by Tony Magliano · Published January 11, 2019
Blaming huge numbers of violent killings, assaults, sex crimes and drug overdoses on undocumented immigrants, President Donald Trump in his first prime-time speech from the Oval Office said, “This is a humanitarian crisis, a...
Christian Living / Church / Crisis / Letter of the Week
by Letters Editor · Published January 11, 2019 · Last modified January 6, 2019
Fr Sean Collins CSsR, Howick, KZN – In this new year, I would like to draw attention to the plight of Colombian Sister Cecelia Gloria Navaerez Argoti, a Catholic nun kidnapped by jihadists in Mali...
