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Bavaria: A Catholic heartland

Nowhere in Germany does the Catholic faith live as strongly as it does in Bavaria, as GÜNTHER SIMMERMACHER explains.

By Admin / February 17, 2015

BY�Phiwokuhle Siyabonga Xulu In 2011 I was fortunate enough to share in community with the Congregation of the Oratory of

By Admin / February 14, 2015

Raymond Perrier, a Southern Cross columnist and former director of the Jesuit Institute, has taken over the running of Durban’s

By Admin / February 12, 2015

BY DYLAN APPOLIS Brother Richard Maidwell, who has been a Brother for the Redemptorist Province of South Africa for thirty-one

By Admin / February 9, 2015

Benedict Daswa is the first South African to be beatified. Benedict was born as Tshimangadzo Samuel Daswa on June

By Emmanuel Ngara / February 2, 2015

Did you know that the sense of self-actualisation can contradict God’s purpose for us? We examine now how some figures

A tearful child approached the Holy Father and explained that his little dog had died. With the skill of a

By Admin / January 22, 2015

Families who have lots of children do not cause poverty, Pope Francis said. The main culprit is “an economic system

By Evans Chama / January 18, 2015

Octave Beauduin was born in 1873 in Belgium. At 33, as a diocesan priest, he became a Benedictine monk at