Church / Church History / Community pictures / Education
by Tamar SC · Published December 4, 2019 · Last modified December 3, 2019
Several staff members at Holy Family College in Glenmore, Durban, completed the Catholic Schools Office’s course on St Paul and the New Evangelisation. Seen with Cardinal Wilfrid Napier are (from left) Luciana Pandarum, Julian...
Catholic schools in Port Elizabeth have agreed to strengthen the religious formation of their learners, after the Catholic Board of Education of the Eastern Cape South met in the wake of the recent National...
Church / Education / Erin Carelse
by Erin Carelse · Published November 6, 2019 · Last modified November 4, 2019
International assessments suggest 78% of South African children in Grade 4 cannot read for meaning in any language. This inability to read for meaning has dire implications for learning, deputy director of the Catholic...
Church / Education / Erin Carelse / Family
by Erin Carelse · Published October 29, 2019 · Last modified October 27, 2019
Zaine Perry has received a special achievement award for not missing a day of school in 14 years, an achievement his mother Michelle Perry, Southern Cross subscriptions administrator, says is due to his hard...
by Tamar SC · Published October 22, 2019 · Last modified October 18, 2019
Primary school teachers and Grade 5 learners at Holy Family College in Glenmore, Durban, welcomed Benedictine monk Fr Laurence Freeman to the school when he delivered an address entitled “A Gift for Life: How...
Christian Living / Church / Education / Faith Life / Religious Life
by asiel · Published October 10, 2019
Innocentia Vilakazi, a facilitator at the Salesians’ Don Bosco Educational Projects (DBEP) in Ennerdale, Johannesburg, is among a small cohort of women welders in South Africa — thanks to God. She qualified in 2013...
Church / Education / Religious Life
by Tamar SC · Published September 23, 2019 · Last modified September 19, 2019
Holy Rosary School in Edenvale, Johannesburg, turned 79, and paid tribute to founder Bishop Joseph Shanahan and the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Rosary who came to South Africa from Ireland. Primary school pupils visited the Holy Rosary...
Church / Education / Ethics & Human Dignity
by Tamar SC · Published September 17, 2019 · Last modified September 16, 2019
Ursula Collings, principal of Holy Family College in Glenmore, Durban, was photographed at her school with male dancers from Shall We Dance Durban studios and the Flatfoot Dance Company who were part of a...
Church / Education / Environment / Laudato Si / Pope Francis
by CNS · Published September 16, 2019 · Last modified September 15, 2019
By Carol Glatz – Pope Francis said the challenges facing humanity and the Earth are so urgent and important that he has invited world leaders, educators and young people to come to the Vatican next...
Church / Education / Feast Days / Schools
by asiel · Published August 30, 2019 · Last modified August 26, 2019
Marist Brothers Linmeyer in Johannesburg celebrated the life and work of the Marist Schools’ founder, St Marcellin Champagnat, on his feast day with a Mass celebrated by Fr David Dryden. More Stories: School ‘Overwhelmed’...
The children of St Benedict School’s preprimary in Pinetown, Durban archdiocese, marked their 100th day at school by dressing up as 100-year-old people, counting out 100 cereal rings to thread and make a necklace,...
Youth Day at St Teresa’s School in Craighall Park, Johannesburg, celebrated the 20000 Soweto pupils who helped to change South Africa during the June 16 uprising in 1976. Fr Thabo Motshegwa conducted Mass for...
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