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Bishop Victor Phalana on National Youth Day!

To mark National Youth Day, Bishop Victor Phalana of Klerksdorp encourages young to believe that they can bring about the

By CNS / June 15, 2020

By Laura Ann Phillips – In Trinidad and Tobago, some are continuing to lobby for legalisation of recreational marijuana, but

By CNS / June 15, 2020

By Carol Glatz – The Eucharist heals people of their wounds, emptiness and sadness, and gives them the strength to

An end-of-the-world mood in Zaka By Fr Peter Chimombe – The six-week lockdown of Zimbabwe between March 30 and May

By CNS / June 14, 2020

By Junno Arocho Esteves – True prayer is a “fight” with God in which those who think they are strong

By Erin Carelse / June 13, 2020

The Class of 2020 at St Teresa’s High School in Rosebank, Johannesburg, has been dubbed the “Covid-19 Matrics”. Headgirls Brogan Hughes,

In an emotional “farewell letter”, a bishop from Botswana recalled meeting and befriending George Floyd and his family while in the

By Tamar SC / June 12, 2020

Robert F Kennedy, the Catholic Robert F Kennedy, the US presidential candidate who was assassinated on June 4, attended Mass

By CNS / June 11, 2020

By Jonathan Luxmoore – At Krakow’s stately Divine Mercy centre, the contemplative atmosphere suddenly evaporates as nuns in black habits come