The Amazon Basin: Mission in the Middle of Nowhere
Why is the Church having a Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region? Barbara Fraser looks at the challenges of missionaries working in a lawless region so remote that it takes five days by...
Category: Mission
What SA Will Do for Mission Month 2019
One special task for Southern Africa’s Church during October’s Extraordinary Mission Month is to understand what the missionary discipleship actually means, according to the head of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in the region. The...
Pope Opens Missionary Month with Call to Share Joy, Hope, Talents
By Carol Glatz – God wants everyone to take a risk to share with others the gifts he has given to them – their life, talents and his love, Pope Francis said. Opening the...
Pray With the Pope: October 2019
Pope’s Prayer Intention: That the breath of the Holy Spirit might engender a new missionary “spring” in the Church. The world, said Bl John Henry Newman, “grows old, but the Church is ever young....
October is The Extraordinary Missionary Month 2019!
In the decades following the ravages of the Napoleonic Wars, the Catholic Church developed a tremendous missionary dynamic and engaged in one of the most successful mission initiatives in church history. Many of...
St Joseph’s Raises Funds for Conference Centre
The papal nuncio addressed the inaugural Bishop Barry Wood OMI Business Breakfast, which is planned to become an annual event to raise funds for the development of St Joseph’s Theological Institute (SJTI) at Cedara, near Pietermaritzburg.
Book on missionaries killed in Zim war tells untold story
The late Fr Ted Rogers deserves credit for having taken a bold step to acknowledge the missionaries who were killed during the Rhodesian/Zimbabwean war of independence.
Memorial Mass to be held for Fr Ted Rogers SJ
Cardinal Wilfrid Napier will celebrate a memorial Mass for the late Fr Ted Rogers SJ who died in January at the age of 93. The Mass will be held in St Ann’s Hall at Mariannhill monastery on Friday, February 23 at 17:30.
St Joseph’s Theological Institute: Formation for Mission and Ministry Conference
St Joseph’s Theological Institute will hold its fifth academic conference from April 5-7 at its campus in Cedara, near Pietermaritzburg. This year’s theme is “Formation for Mission and Ministry”, relating to the Synod of Bishops on Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment to be held in Rome in October.
Pfanner’s Sons: Going Back to Our Roots
We members of the Congregation of the Missionaries of Mariannhill (CMM) must be very proud that our own Abbot Francis Pfanner, the founder of the famous Mariannhill Monastery, and his co-missionaries are highly featured in the important history of the Catholic Church in South Africa
Fr Michele D’Annucci: A Great Missionary Remembered
The Italian priest known as Masusumetsa “was a great friend of South Africa, and its people”. These were the words of Nelson Mandela, in remembrance of Fr Michele D’Annucci after the priest’s violent death.
Travelling Abbot Francis Pfanner Terrain
It is wonderful that The Southern Cross is highlighting the apostolate of the remarkable Abbot Francis Pfanner. What a magnificent man! With fearless courage, deep piety and indefatigable energy, this visionary made a beautiful Mariannhill domain in the lovely hills of the Drakensberg.
