Christmas: It’s Not Just Another Day
By James Katende – Do We Celebrate Christmas Knowing It’s About Jesus Christ, or Is It Just Another Day? Each...
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460 Eastern Cape Children Receive Essential Care and Meals in Week-Long Holiday Camp
A week-long holiday programme delivered in the Langbos informal settlement at Addo, Eastern Cape, has provided structured care, daily meals,...
Pope condemns ‘antisemitic violence,’ ‘terrorist massacre’ in Sydney
By Cindy Wooden, CNS – Condemning the attack on Jews celebrating Hanukkah in Sydney, Pope Leo XIV said, “Enough with...
Mass Readings: 21 December – 28 December, 2025
Liturgical Calendar Year A – Weekday Cycle Year II Sunday December 21, 4th Sunday of Advent Is 7: 10-14 /...
A Christmas miracle – when enemies became brothers
By Tony Magliano – As the first Christmas of World War I approached, Pope Benedict XV on Dec. 7, 1914, asked...
Our Precious Gift of Freedom
The subject of freedom raises many challenging questions, even more so in our time. The 18th-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau famously...
Fr Peter-John Pearson: Where SA and Vatican Stand Together
At the COP30 meeting in Belém, Brazil, in November, the Vatican and South Africa presented a strikingly aligned message: climate...
Children’s Rosary Movement Reaches South Africa
What began as a small parish initiative in the US state of Connecticut has grown into one of the Catholic...
St Joseph’s Children’s Home: SA’s only Catholic Children’s Hospital
In 1935, five Pallottine Sisters opened a small ward for sick children in Cape Town. Ninety years on, St Joseph’s...
