Church / Church History / Community pictures / Education
by Tamar SC · Published December 4, 2019 · Last modified December 3, 2019
Several staff members at Holy Family College in Glenmore, Durban, completed the Catholic Schools Office’s course on St Paul and the New Evangelisation. Seen with Cardinal Wilfrid Napier are (from left) Luciana Pandarum, Julian...
Abortion / Church / Church History / Church Teaching
by Admin · Published November 16, 2019 · Last modified November 11, 2019
This month marks the 23rd anniversary of parliament voting to legalise abortion. Paul De Marco reflects on why the killing of the unborn is intolerable to Catholics. Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you....
By Rhina Guidos – No one can deny that the act was horrific. Six priests found face down on a lawn with bullet holes through various parts of their bodies. One was in his bathrobe....
Bible / Church / Church History / Evangelism / Ntabeni
by Mphuthumi Ntabeni · Published October 22, 2019 · Last modified October 21, 2019
I write this late in the evening on the feast of St Jerome. I’m a little exhausted, having just arrived from Johannesburg, after a rather hectic weekend of endless book discussions on Live Literature...
This is the story of Blessed John Henry Newman – soon to be saint – who will be canonised by Pope Francis at the Vatican on October 13. And though he died in 1890,...
Bible / Church / Church History / Simmermacher
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published September 10, 2019 · Last modified September 9, 2019
For the September 14 feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, Günther Simmermacher looks at the history of the True Cross, which was recovered in 326 AD. When the Church celebrates the feast of...
The Thomistic Institute in Washington has launched “Aquinas 101,” a free online video course that instructs interested viewers in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. “Aquinas 101” will consist of 85 to 90 videos...
Bible / Church History / Church Teaching
by Admin · Published August 9, 2019 · Last modified September 9, 2019
Michael Shackleton – Contrary to some Protestants’ objections, the Bible has never been neglected by the Catholic Church. This is because both the Old Testament and the New have only one core, one point...
By Carol Glatz – With the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, the bishops of Japan are renewing calls and prayers to build peace by abolishing nuclear weapons worldwide...
Anthony Egan SJ on St Paul / Bible / Church History / Series
by Anthony Egan · Published July 29, 2019 · Last modified September 10, 2019
When we think of St Paul on his many great journeys fearlessly preaching the gospel, do we imagine a street preacher proclaiming his message aloud, grasping and sometimes waving around a well-thumbed leather-bound copy of the Bible? When we think of Paul writing his letters, do we imagine him writing away surrounded by a stack of bibles, commentaries and works of theology? We would be mistaken.
Church / Church History / Fr John Allen Green / Jesus / Scripture
by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published July 28, 2019 · Last modified July 25, 2019
The “Our Father”, is the prayer of 1,2 billion Catholics and a further 1 billion of other Christian denominations around the world, in every place, in every occasion; in times of celebration, in times...
By Selby Makgotho – Celebrating the 87th anniversary of Sacred Heart cathedral in Polokwane diocese, vicar-general Fr Clemens Selemela called on the faithful to never forget the missionaries who contributed immensely to the establishment of...
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