Italian consul Emanuele Pollio, visiting the Redemptoris Mater seminary of the Neocatechumenal Way in Rondebosch, Cape Town, said the seminary is important as it gives strength to new evangelisation. The seminary is home to diocesan missionary...
Many years ago as a young man born and raised in Baltimore, I spent a very different week getting a taste of life in Appalachia.
Christian Living / Christian Mission / Global Issues
by asiel · Published November 19, 2018 · Last modified November 16, 2018
People must make “a serious examination of conscience to understand whether we are really capable of listening to the poor,” the pope said in a message for World Day of the Poor
Charity / Christen Torres / Christian Living / Christian Mission / Global Issues
by Christen Torres · Published November 18, 2018 · Last modified November 16, 2018
World Day of the Poor was first proposed in 2016 in Pope Francis’ apostolic letter for the Year of Mercy, Misericordia et misera, which calls on the faithful to “make a serious examination of conscience, to see if we are truly capable of hearing the cry of the poor”.
by Kilian SC · Published November 7, 2018 · Last modified November 6, 2018
Father Rico Talisic, a new ship-visitor in Cape Town, celebrated his first onboard Mass for a group of sailors. Fr Talisic is a Scalabrinian priest from the Philippines and now ship-visits for Catholic seafarers’...
Christian Mission / Church / Franciscan Spirituality / Volunteering
by Tamar SC · Published October 16, 2018 · Last modified October 17, 2018
God gives everyone a mission, Diana George Babish said as she fielded a phone call about a dog which had been shot in Hebron. The mission God gave her is to take care of the abused and abandoned animals in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, she said.
Christen Torres / Christian Mission / lay ministry
by Christen Torres · Published October 9, 2018 · Last modified October 8, 2018
More than 250 members of the Legion of Mary, as well as delegates from the Eastern Cape and Cape Town, attended the legion’s founding celebration at Our Mother of Perpetual Help parish in Malabar, Port Elizabeth. The event celebrated 85 years of the Legion of Mary in South Africa.
Bible / Christian Living / Christian Mission / Scripture
by Jael SC · Published September 12, 2018 · Last modified September 11, 2018
As the Catholic Bible Foundation turns 25, head Br Mike Chalmers CFC looks back at how it started – in the most unlikely of places. The Catholic Bible Foundation (CBF) will celebrate its...
Christian Mission / Church / Religious Life
by Jael SC · Published August 30, 2018 · Last modified August 28, 2018
The Salesians’ Bosco Youth Centre in Walkerville, Johannesburg, held a vocations camp. The young men were introduced to Salesian founder St John Bosco by watching a movie on his life, and topics such as...
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...
Christian Living / Christian Mission / Church / Fr Ralph de Hahn / lay ministry
by Kilian SC · Published July 17, 2018
Have our people already forgotten the significance of their baptism by water, blood, fire and the anointing of the Holy Spirit (Mt 3:11; Acts 1:5)? It would appear so.
As a continuing initiative to promote a safe and healthy society for the young, some dioceses have started children’s sodalities. The Pretoria archdiocese is one of several, with a strong sodality for children. Called...
