Fr Jack Viscardi IMC Rest in Peace
By Fr Rocco Marra IMC – Consolata Father Giovanni “Jack” Viscardi died on April 19 in Italy at the age of 88. Born at Cernusco,...
Category: Death
Fr Liam McDermott OFM Rest in Peace
By Archbishop William Slattery OFM – Franciscan Father Liam McDermott died on March 9 at the age of 86. A native of Ballymote in County...
Sr Helga Thomas OP Rest in Peace
Dominican Sister Helga Thomas died on April 1 at the age of 78. Hildegard Roswitha Thomas was born on October 22 1941 in Homburg-Erbach in...
Father John Nolan OMI, Rest in Peace
Oblate Father John Nolan, who served 54 years in the archdiocese of Bloemfontein, died at 84 in Dublin on April 8. His death was the...
Father Joseph Leathem Rest in Peace
By Fr Neil Frank OMI – Father Joseph Leathem died unexpectedly on March 16, after just two nights in hospital. He would have turned 85...
Br Raimund Berchtenbereiter CMM Rest in Peace
Mariannhill Missionaries Brother Raimund Berchtenbereiter, the previous head of the tailor workshop at his congregation’s monastery in KwaZulu-Natal, died at the age of 79 on...
Human Rights Champion Mike Auret Dies
Mike Auret, the long-serving chairman of Zimbabwe’s Justice & Peace Commission, parliamentarian and outspoken opponent of President Robert Mugabe, died on April 10, Good Friday,...
Br Evenie Turner OFM Rest in Peace
By Rupert Borman – Franciscan Brother Evenie Turner of Port Elizabeth died on Sunday, March 29, at the age of 56. Born to Venus Rose...
Fr Albert Danker: Builder of Bridges, Breaker of Barriers
Recently The Southern Cross published warm tributes to the late Fr Albert Danker OMI—the priest who built bridges over barriers and inspired others to do...
Fr Mokhalinyana Sixtus Moahloli OMI Rest in Peace
By Fr Neil Frank OMI – Oblate Father Mokhalinyana Sixtus Moahloli died suddenly on February 11, aged 37. Fr Moahloli was born in Kanana, Orkney,...
Giant of SA Church, Father Albert Danker, dies at 90
Oblate Father Albert Danker, one of Durban’s most revered priests, died on January 28. He was 90. In the last few weeks before his death,...
Fr Joseph Hollanders OMI Rest in Peace
By Bishop Victor Phalana – Oblate Father Joseph “Jef” Hollanders, who was killed in a robbery in his presbytery in the village of Bodibe on...
