Getting Ready to Take on Marriage
The Church requires engaged couples to prepare for marriage, usually through Catholic Engaged Encounter (CEE) workshops.
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Christian Living Church Marriage
Church Church History Ecumenical dialogue
Luther and the Medieval Catholic Church
How Protestants regarded Martin Luther has evolved as the Reformation he engendered has likewise evolved, according to German Catholic theologian Father Peter Neuner.
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Church
Cardinal Dolan: Honesty about Church Flaws Might Win Back Fallen-Away Members
Humbly and openly sharing the “wounds” and shortcomings of the church might bring those who are alienated back to the practice of the faith.
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Church Vocations
Seminary Students Battle it out on the Field
The annual sports day at St John Vianney Seminary in Pretoria gives formators and students a chance to concente more on human formation and forget a little bit about academic formation.
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Christian Living Church Women and the Church
Faith at the Centre for Major-General Victoria Mekute
One of the highest-ranking women in the police is celebrating 35 years in the force this year. As a Catholic, she says her faith keeps her humble and inspires her to do acts of mercy. Erin Carelse spoke to Major-General Victoria Mekute.
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Church Your Letters
Ok, What’s Going On With Medjugorje?
John Lee, Johannesburg – The alleged apparition of Our Lady at Medjugorje in 1981 continues to be controversial. This is after 36 years.
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Church Priests Saints
Father Stanley Rother – The ‘Ordinary Martyr’
Wearing a red and black traditional Guatemalan shirt that had belonged to martyred U.S. priest Father Stanley Rother, Ronald Arteaga traveled from his village of Santiago Atitlan to witness the beatification of the pastor he knew as “Padre Aplas.”
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Church Church History Ntabeni
South Africa’s Catholic Church Heritage
The Catholic Chuch in South Africa has a rich history of suppression and opposition in South Africa – so from the first Mass said around 1487 till today when we are celebrating the 200th anniversary of the South African Catholic Church – we also celebrate the lives of those who built the faith in SA.
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Church Liturgy Mass
Mass Translations: Bishops Can Now Approve Them
A document released by Pope Francis that gives bishops’ conferences greater power in introducing liturgical texts will have no immediate impact on the current English missal but will facilitate the approval of translations into South Africa’s other languages, according to the bishop responsible for liturgy in Southern Africa.
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