Church / Church History / Education / Erin Carelse
by Erin Carelse · Published June 15, 2019 · Last modified June 13, 2019
As Maris Stella School in Durban celebrated 120 years, Cardinal Wilfrid Napier honoured it for transforming love into service. Speaking at a thanksgiving Mass concelebrated with Frs Peter Lafferty and Sean Mullin, the cardinal...
Church / Church History / Politics / Saints
by Caleb SC · Published May 13, 2019 · Last modified May 9, 2019
Few politicians have a reputation for holiness, but there are four Italians of that dirty trade for whom sainthood causes are underway. Desmond O’Grady introduces the four politicians of ethics. What do Luigi Sturzo, ...
By Jonathan Luxmoore – When Stonyhurst College was founded at Saint-Omer in the Spanish Netherlands by the recusant Jesuit Father Robert Persons in 1593, persecuted Catholic priests faced a mandatory death sentence if caught ministering...
Church / Church History / Jesus
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published April 16, 2019 · Last modified April 19, 2019
Legends have surrounded the Holy Grail, the chalice of the Last Supper. Now a researcher claims to have proven the Holy Chalice of Valencia as the true Holy Grail. Can this really be so,...
Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria, Illinois, announced “with great joy” that the New York Supreme Court ruled that the remains of Archbishop Fulton Sheen should be transferred from New York to his diocese. The...
Church / Church History / Ntabeni
by Mphuthumi Ntabeni · Published March 16, 2019 · Last modified March 15, 2019
My friend, a theology PhD student, recently asked me why the first black African Christians in our region, mostly Xhosa, were called “Majakane”. What she didn’t know is that this means “the people of...
Church / Church History / Simmermacher
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published March 12, 2019 · Last modified March 11, 2019
In January, GÜNTHER SIMMERMACHER visited Panama City to report on World Youth Day. Here he shares some impressions of the profoundly Catholic city. (All photos: Günther Simmermacher) Normal life will have returned to Panama City...
By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service – Declaring that the Catholic Church is unafraid of history, Pope Francis announced that documents in the Vatican Secret Archives relating to the wartime pontificate of Pope Pius...
Charity / Church / Church History / Daluxolo Moloantoa / Saints
by Jael SC · Published February 5, 2019 · Last modified February 9, 2019
Domitilla Rota Hyams was the saintly founder, with the help of husband Danny, of the Little Eden Society for intellectually disabled children in Gauteng. In the first of a series of four articles, Daluxolo...
Church / Church History / Daluxolo Moloantoa / Parish Life
by asiel · Published February 5, 2019 · Last modified February 4, 2019
By Daluxolo Moloantoa – In two years’ time Pretoria’s oldest black mission will turn 100, and this January the Most Holy Redeemer Mission church in Mmakau Village celebrated its 98 years by looking back at...
Church / Church History / Education / Letter of the Week
by Letters Editor · Published February 3, 2019
QX Nobin, Pietermaritzburg – The state has announced a review of the CAPS (Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statements) history syllabuses of Grades 4 to 12. So far, these history syllabuses have made no mention...
Church / Church History / Simmermacher
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published January 8, 2019 · Last modified January 6, 2019
Pope Francis, the American Facebook commenter pronounced with a certainty that permitted no dissent, “is the worst pope of all time”. Obviously that person is not a fan of the Holy Father. Personally, I...
