The Legacy of My Saintly Parents
By Ann van Niekerk – A priest I knew often said: “There are saints among you, right here, sitting in the […]
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From Our Vaults 62 Years Ago: July 3, 1963
Record crowd for papal coronation A quarter of a million people, the greatest number ever to witness a papal coronation,
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The Church in the Modern World
About 60 days ago, some 133 cardinals were meeting in conclave in Rome to choose our new pope. And 60 years
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Some Famous Benedictines
There have been 17 Benedictine popes — and none of them took the name Benedict. The first of them was
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St Benedict of Nursia: A Man who Changed the Catholic Church
St Benedict at a glance Born: March 2, 480, in Nursia (now Norcia), Italy Died: March 21, 547, (aged 67)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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