Trinity Sunday Reflection
Control is wrenched from our fingers and we strike out in anger. In Plato’s darkened cave of our minds we also gnash our teeth like the Pharisees as we shout “propaganda and heresy”, and...
Category: Church
J&P Wants To Help Give Out More Food Parcels
The bishops’ Justice & Peace Commission (J&P) is negotiating with the United Nations to explore possibilities for a second phase of its food relief initiative. This comes after J&P in partnership with United Nations...
Archbishop Says Ask Uganda Martyrs To Intercede For End To Covid-19
By Godfrey Olukya – At the annual Uganda Martyrs Day Mass, shared through video, Catholics were urged to remember two nuns who were healed of bubonic plague through the martyrs’ intercession. Archbishop Cyprian Kizito Lwanga...
Pope: Trusting In God Doesn’t Mean Never Arguing With Him
By Cindy Wooden – In the story of the patriarch Abraham – honoured by Jews, Christians and Muslims – faith becomes a direct relationship with God that is marked by constant prayer, which sometimes takes...
Churches May Reopen – But Won’t Just Yet
Dioceses around the country are now making plans to reopen churches, but agree that the right time for that is not just yet. The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) welcomed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s...
It’s Time For The Church To Lead By Example
A new kind of front line is emerging on the scene of the next phase of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States: that of workers and security guards in retail establishments that have...
After Spate Of Protests, Bishops Again Express Sorrow Over Floyd Killing, Racism
By Rhina Guidos – Even as the United States still finds itself grappling with the coronavirus pandemic, outrage, grief and anger over the latest killing of an unarmed black man outweighed caution as hundreds...
New Chapter In My Great Book Of Life
Well, here we are. We find ourselves sitting on the benches in an arena as spectators to a fight between world leaders and this most unwelcome virus. Caught in the crossfire are healthcare workers...
Let the Holy Spirit Teach Us
Happy Pentecost! That is my wish and prayer for families as we explore how we have managed our spirituality during these months of lockdown. My hope and dream at the start of the lockdown...
Four SA Catholics: Understanding God in African Cultural Tradition
A group of South African women took part in an international pilgrimage to Greece. CHRISTINE SCHENK spoke to four of them on their experience of being women in the Catholic Church. Two months ago—just...
Pope: Pandemic Calls Christians To Change The Course Of Their Lives
By Cindy Wooden – As the Covid-19 pandemic continues, Pope Francis joined an initiative of the Anglican Church, praying that people would be converted and use the pandemic’s disruption to begin anew. “The Holy Spirit...
Pray With the Pope: June 2020
Proclaim The Love Of The Lord Pope’s Prayer Intention for June, 2020: We pray that all those who suffer may find their way in life, allowing themselves to be touched by the heart of...
