This Week’s Issue: 22 November – 28 November, 2017
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Church
Church Priests Vocations
Sunday Times Associate Editor Talks to Seminarians
Catholic seminarians hosted prominent political journalist Ranjeni Munusamy as a guest lecturer. Ms Munusamy, currently associate editor of The Sunday Times and previously of The Daily Maverick, comes from Dundee diocese and is at present a parishioner in Bryanston, Johannesburg
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Christian Mission Church Prayer Your Letters
SA Mercy Pilot Asks For Prayers
An October e-mail was received from a South African charter pilot to the Central African Republic. He flies for global humanitarian organisations who “help the locals tremendously. The aircraft getting these supplies out to the people are the lifeblood of the country — without them they would have nothing. We are almost their only hope.”
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Bishops Church Priests
Fr Tshiamo Logic “Rock” Makaba Ordained for Gabarone Diocese
Bishop Frank Nubuasah SVD of Francistown, Botswana, presided over the first ordination of Fr Tshiamo Makaba to the priesthood for Gaborone diocese
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Church Liturgy Saints Shackleton
Why Our Statues Are Not Idols
We know that images and statues of Christ and the saints are nothing more than plaster, wood or paint. As such they have no magical powers.
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Church Priests
Gossip Eats the Fabric of the Church
Sincere, harmonious unity is needed in the world and in the church, Pope Francis told an international association for Catholic priests. “It’s very sad when we find in a presbyterate that this unity doesn’t exist,” and, instead, gossip and backstabbing are the rule, he said.
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Church Priests
Seminarians from St Francis Xavier Visit Robben Island
Students of St Francis Xavier Orientation Seminary, who come from all over South Africa, took a boat trip to the island, where the late President Nelson Mandela and other political activists were imprisoned.
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Church Priests
Priest: My Time as Bandits’ Hostage
Last month, Fr Maurizio Pallù was kidnapped and held in captivity by bandits. Here the 63-year-old Italian diocesan priest, who serves in Nigeria as a missionary of the Neocatechumenal Way, tells his story of facing fear with hope and prayer.
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Charity Church
KZN Bishops and Laity Pack Meals for Needy Children
The Catholic bishops of KwaZulu-Natal led a group of 80 priests, nuns, youth, and men and women in packing the first 10 000 of a total of 35 000 meals for children in the province.
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