Dominican Friars in Southern Africa to hold International Symposium on St Thomas Aquinas
By Fr Isaac Mutelo OP, Arrupe Jesuit University Regent of Studies – For the past ten years, the Dominican Vice...
Church History
Sister Mary of the Trinity: The Mystic of Pretoria
The sainthood cause of Sr Mary of the Trinity, a 20th-century mystic who died 1942 in Jerusalem, means that Pretoria...
The Story of the Council of Nicaea
This year marks 1700 years since the first Council of Nicaea was convened. Günther Simmermacher tells the story of how...
Why Didn’t Everybody Believe in the Resurrection?
Question: Why was something so amazing like the resurrection of Christ not enough to convert all the people of Jerusalem...
From Our Vaults 26 Years Ago: June 20, 1999
Now ANC must deliver The African National Congress’ landslide victory in this month’s elections could be a good thing if the...
Celebrating 419 Years of the Ursuline Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary
By Sr Margaret Mary SU – June 16, 2025, marks the 419th anniversary of the foundation of the Ursuline Sisters of the...
How does the Catholic Church in South Africa remember June 16th?
By James Katende – June 16 is a date etched deeply into the collective memory of South Africa—a day that...
Lost and Found: The Life of St Anthony
Every Catholic knows to invoke St Anthony to find lost items. This is the life of one of our most...
Bake Bread for St Anthony
Saint Anthony of Padua was born in 1195 in Lisbon, Portugal, as Fernando Martins de Bulhões. He loved the poor and was a mighty preacher. He died in 1232 in Padua, Italy, where he is entombed in the city’s great basilica.
