At a workshop for Witbank diocese youth ministry leaders, Bishop Joe Sandri stressed the importance of recognising the youth, and possibly having them lead Mass once a month.
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With tuberculosis still the leading cause of death in South Africa — according to the World Health Organisation around 124000 South Africans died from TB in 2016 alone — the Catholic Church has partnered with the health department to provide screening services in three municipal areas.
Church-Government TB Partnership! Read Post »
Holy Cross Primary School in Aliwal North, Eastern Cape, contributed R3000 to the 2018 Lenten Appeal. Mgr Joe Kizito, vicar-general of Aliwal North diocese, accepted the
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Forgiveness is a message Pope Francis has preached to us quite often. In mid-April, Pope Francis found himself asking for forgiveness from Chilean survivors of clergy of sexual abuse.
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The church is like a bicycle – it stays upright as long as it keeps moving, Pope Francis said. The first disciples “were not a closed group of the elect, but a missionary church,” boldly undertaking new initiatives prompted by the Holy Spirit, the pope said during his early morning Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae.
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Two Sisters of the Daughters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Witbank diocese celebrated their golden jubilees. (From left)
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Those who receive the sacrament are given the strength to overcome “the temptation to separate from God, from his will, from communion with him and fall into the snares of worldly seductions,” the pope said during his weekly general audience.
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St Frances Academy in Baltimore has removed the name of its “Drs. Camille and Bill Cosby Community Center” after Bill Cosby was convicted on three counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman. The letters on the building came down the same day.
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