The Worst-Ever Pope?
Pope Francis, the American Facebook commenter pronounced with a certainty that permitted no dissent, “is the worst pope of all
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Church Church History Your Letters
The Problem with Pope Pius XII
Peter Onesta, Johannesburg – What Patrick Dacey says of Popes Pius XI and XII in his letter “See no evil,
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See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil”— Concerning Church Matters
Patrick Dacey, Johannesburg – Another watershed moment may be looming when heads of the world’s bishops’ conferences meet with Pope
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Trappist Martyrs to be Beatified in Algeria
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.
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Church Church History Religious Life
Sr Bernadette Mtimkulu Recalls Her Life of 100 Years
Sr Bernadette Mtimkulu CPS of Mthatha has been a professed nun for almost 70 years and will turn 100 on
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Cycling ’Round Heaven All Day…
Fr Sean Collins CSsr, Howick, KZN – The report on the Legion of Mary starting its first South African praesidium 85 years
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How Martyrs Defeated Nazi Executioners
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.
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Church Church History Parish Life
Catholic Filipino Settlers Honoured
By Steve Herbert – More than 300 people, most of them descendants of Filipino settlers, witnessed the renaming and blessing of
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‘Church Now in Transition Period’
Patrick Dacey, Johannesburg – ‘The difficulty which we [the Catholic Church] face today, is that we are living in a
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