Church / Crisis / Death / Pope Francis
by CNS · Published September 17, 2020 · Last modified September 16, 2020
By Carol Glatz – Without God’s help, it is impossible to bear the tragic loss of a young life, Pope Francis said. “Every tragic death brings with it great pain. But when it snatches (the...
Church / Death / Priests / Religious Life
by Admin · Published September 15, 2020 · Last modified September 13, 2020
By Fr Sean Collins CSsR – Redemptorist Father Duncan Blackie died on August 23 in Cape Town. He was 74. He was born on April 11, 1946, into a family of intellectuals and professionals in...
By Archbishop Paul Mandla Khumalo CMM – Mariannhill Missionaries Father Bernhard Thiel died in a car accident on August 25 near Port Shepstone. He was 82. Born in Trebnitz, Germany, on June 15, 1938, he...
By David Agren – A Spanish court has convicted a former Salvadoran colonel for the murders of five Jesuit priests in 1989 – a rare act of justice for an atrocity from El Salvador’s brutal civil...
Church / Death / Religious Life
by Admin · Published September 7, 2020 · Last modified September 4, 2020
By Sr Ann Genevieve MSA – Missionary Sister of the Assumption Ursula (Mary Theresa) Hinchion passed away peacefully on August 3, aged 82, in the Buckingham Road Convent in Port Elizabeth, after a long illness...
By Paul Goller – Donovan Lowry died last month in his 88th year. He and his sister Pam were born to a family well-established in both Mthatha, Church and society. Donovan first appeared on the...
Church / Crisis / Death / Pictured / Religious Art / Religious Life
by CNS · Published August 24, 2020 · Last modified August 21, 2020
Artist Ed Stross paints the images of 13 Catholic nuns who died of Covid-19 on the wall of his art studio. The women religious were Felician sisters who lived at their order’s convent in Livonia,...
Church / Death / Religious Life
by Jael SC · Published August 11, 2020 · Last modified August 6, 2020
Dominican Sister Andrea van Hal died on July 16 at Emmaus convent, East London. She was 92. The Sisters had been notified after supper that Sr Andrea’s end was near. They gathered to sing the...
Dominican Sister Rosella Langer died at the age of 82 on July 14 at Emmaus Home in East London after a short illness. The eldest of eight children, born in Osnabrück, Germany, Sr Rosella faced...
Church / Death / Priests / Religious Life
by Tamar SC · Published August 1, 2020 · Last modified July 29, 2020
Oblate Father Eamon O’Reilly, formerly of Johannesburg, died on July 12, a day before his 88th birthday, in Ireland. Fr O’Reilly made his first vows as an Oblate on September 29, 1954, and his perpetual...
Christian Living / Church / Crisis / Death / Erin Carelse
by Erin Carelse · Published July 31, 2020 · Last modified July 30, 2020
According to a statement released by the South African Council of Churches (SACC), funerals continue to be a major source of Covid-19, accelerating the numbers infected and leading to deaths and more infectious funerals. This...
Pallottine Father Peter Hillen, who served in South Africa from 1999-2007, died on July 18 at the age of 68 in Nigeria. Fr Hillen spent almost all of his priestly ministry in Africa. Throughout his...
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