Plane Crash Priest Felt South African
Friends have remembered the Kenyan priest with South African connections who died in this month’s Ethiopian Airlines crash in Addis Ababa as a jovial man with a sense of humour who had an outstanding...
Category: Death
Alternative Burials: An Intriguing Issue
Jacky Powell, Cape Town – I take the Southern Cross weekly and my husband (not a Catholic) turns first to Conrad and the Church Chuckle over breakfast before reading the headlines (at least) while...
Sister Othmara Metzger SAC Rest in Peace
Pallottine Sister Othmara Metzger, the long-time matron of St Joseph’s Home for Chronically Ill Children in Cape Town, died on February 17 at the age or 101. Born Justina Metzger in Werbachhausen, southern Germany,...
Practice of Memento Mori – Considering One’s Death – Revived for Lent
We have one life. What are we doing with it? Are we remembering our death? To some it sounds strange, but that’s what a Daughter of St. Paul is doing through her revival of...
Bishop Boniface Tshosa Setlalekgosi of Gaborone Rest in Peace
Bishop Boniface Tshosa Setlalekgosi of Gaborone diocese in Botswana died on Friday, January 25, at Gaborone Private Hospital at the age of 91. Bishop Setlalekgosi was born in Serowe in 1927 and grew up...
Death Penalty Is Now Forbidden By The Church?
Why has Pope Francis suddenly made a change in the Catechism (2267), with regard to the just sentencing to death by the state of identified criminals? We are now taught that the death penalty...
Fr Werner Stafflinger, Rest in Peace
By Sydney Duval – Father Werner Stafflinger died aged 83 at Nazareth House in Cape Town on January 12. Fr Stafflinger was among those whose Church ministry was characterised by deep humility and steadfast...
Fr Larry McDonnell SDB Rest in Peace
Salesian Father Larry McDonnell of Manzini, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) died on December 25 at the age of 83. Born in Ireland in 1935, Fr McDonnell was ordained in 1962. He spent 48 years of...
Fr Mzingaye Moyo Rest in Peace
Father Mzingaye Moyo of Keimoes-Upington diocese died on the evening of October 29 when he crashed into the back of an unmarked stationary lorry 30km outside Pofadder. Fr Moyo was born on August 8,...
Fr Vitus Mjengu Rest in Peace
Father Vitus Mfanuyothi Mjengu of Mariannhill died on November 6, 2018, at Edendale Hospital in Pietermaritzburg, from injuries sustained four days earlier in car accident in Bulwer. Fr Mjengu, who was 58, was an...
Palliative Care, Pain Management & Treating Whole Person
A woman religious suffering from metastatic breast cancer in the final stages received medication to ease severe pain and thanked the doctors and nurses. “Now that the pain is tolerable, I can start praying...
My Story of the Gentile and the Jew
By Sydney Duval – We arrived in Cape Town on the afternoon of New Year’s Day 1980 after a long haul from Johannesburg, accompanied by the furniture vans. No 2 Highfield Road, Rosebank, was...
