After Islamic terrorists stormed the Algerian monastery he called home, Trappist Father Christian de Cherge — who with 18 others will be beatified on December 8 — felt compelled to put pen to paper and write down his testament.
Sr Bernadette Mtimkulu CPS of Mthatha has been a professed nun for almost 70 years and will turn 100 on November 26. Sr Mary Florence Sitwala cps looks at Sr Bernadette’s long life of...
by Letters Editor · Published November 24, 2018 · Last modified November 19, 2018
Fr Sean Collins CSsr, Howick, KZN – The report on the Legion of Mary starting its first South African praesidium 85 years ago in Port Elizabeth reminded me of that exceptional nun, Irish Dominican Sr Evangelist...
November 10 marked the 75th anniversary of the execution of three anti-Nazi priests and a Lutheran pastor whose witness and friendship across sectarian lines inspired ecumenical relations, as GÜNTHER SIMMERMACHER writes.
By Steve Herbert – More than 300 people, most of them descendants of Filipino settlers, witnessed the renaming and blessing of a flight of steps at Kalk Bay, Cape Town, as Manila Steps. The naming...
Church / Church History / Letter of the Week
by Letters Editor · Published November 6, 2018 · Last modified November 5, 2018
Patrick Dacey, Johannesburg – ‘The difficulty which we [the Catholic Church] face today, is that we are living in a transition period between a dying model of Church and an emerging model of Church....
Church History / Egan / Religious Life
by Anthony Egan · Published October 25, 2018 · Last modified October 24, 2018
Religious orders and congregations did not just help build the local Church but also the country. Fr Anthony Egan SJ gives a brief history of religious life in Southern Africa. It is almost impossible...
Christen Torres / Church / Church History
by Christen Torres · Published October 24, 2018 · Last modified October 23, 2018
At least 80% of families in Kalk Bay, Cape Town, are believed to have traces of Filipino blood, and thus a Catholic heritage. This will be commemorated later this month when the 19th-century steps in...
Church / Church History / Church Teaching / Pope Francis
by asiel · Published October 20, 2018 · Last modified October 19, 2018
Catholics need to help the church along a path of “deep spiritual renewal,” Pope Francis told Jesuits from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. “I believe the Lord wants a change in the church,” which is...
Church / Church History / Ntabeni
by Mphuthumi Ntabeni · Published October 16, 2018 · Last modified October 19, 2018
One of my hobbies is to research the links between the scholastic frame of mind and architecture. It goes back to my varsity days when I had to study the history of architecture....
Church / Church History / Saints
by Jael SC · Published October 9, 2018 · Last modified October 16, 2018
Two giants in the struggle for justice studied at the same time in Rome and took inspiration from the pope at the time, explains PADDY KEARNEY. Archbishops Óscar Romero of San Salvador and Denis Hurley...
By Denis Ekwerike MDP – Cardinal Wilfrid Napier presided over the 75th anniversary Mass of St Joseph’s Theological Institute in Cedara, Pietermaritzburg. Started 75 years ago as a scholasticate for South African Missionary Oblates...
