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...
Church / Church History / Letter of the Week
by Letters Editor · Published January 7, 2019 · Last modified January 6, 2019
Peter Onesta, Johannesburg – What Patrick Dacey says of Popes Pius XI and XII in his letter “See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil”— concerning Church matters” is correct. At least Pius...
Church / Church History / Letter of the Week
by Letters Editor · Published December 5, 2018 · Last modified January 6, 2019
Patrick Dacey, Johannesburg – Another watershed moment may be looming when heads of the world’s bishops’ conferences meet with Pope Francis in February next year. Pope John XXIII led the way with Vatican II,...
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...
