The Calling of the Laity
By Laurika Nxumalo – The 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (Synod on Synodality) that has been described as the pinnacle of Pope Francis’s...
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Ethiopian and Eritrean Catholic Community Leaders Meeting and Executive Committee Election
Ethiopian and Eritrean Catholic Community Leaders met on October 17 at St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Yeoville, Archdiocese of Johannesburg, led by Community Chaplain Fr...
Retrouvaille International Conference Meeting
The International Conference Meeting of the Retrouvaille Community will be held in Cape Town (Century City) from September 22-24. Retrouvaille ministers to hurting couples. Delegates from around...
New National President Elected For Society of St Vincent De Paul
The Society of St Vincent de Paul, a worldwide organisation of lay Catholics who want to express their faith through service to the poor – and run...
Tshepo Mofokeng: The Vocation of an Undertaker
For a young Klerksdorp businessman, running a funeral parlour is a vocation. Daluxolo Moloantoa spoke with Tshepo Mofokeng. All Souls’ Day is a day of prayer and...
Pope: Catholics must overcome temptation of divisions
By Cindy Wooden, CNS – Laypeople are not “guests” in the Catholic Church and priests are not the “bosses,” Pope Francis said; rather all the baptised belong...
Every Catholic has something to contribute to the church, pope says
By Cindy Wooden, CNS – Catholics need to ask themselves whether their communities are a “concrete sign of unity and love” or simply a group of people...
Partners in mission: Dicastery promotes ‘co-responsibility’ of clergy, laity
By Cindy Wooden, CNS – For too many Catholics, ordained or lay, the responsibilities of the laity are those “delegated” by the priest or bishop. As the...
Tshepo Mofokeng: The Vocation of an Undertaker
For a young Klerksdorp businessman, running a funeral parlour is a vocation. Daluxolo Moloantoa spoke with Tshepo Mofokeng. All Souls’ Day is a day of prayer and...
Packed programme, heated debate await Synodal Path plenary participants
By CNS – Participants will face a packed agenda and heated debate at the upcoming fourth plenary assembly of the Synodal Path reform project on the future...
