Priest Releases 11th Gospel CD
A Mariannhill Missionary priest is releasing a new album of gospel songs, addressing a range of social issues. Fr Lawrence Mota CMM has released ten well-received gospel CDs. His 11th album is entitled...
Category: Priests
Priests: Celebrating Mass Online With No Congregants ‘Odd,’ ‘Weird’
By Mark Pattison – Here is the church, and here is the steeple; Father says Mass, but where are the people? Imagine if you gave a Mass and nobody came. That’s an emerging reality for...
Religious Find Inventive Techniques Of Caring For Community In Isolation
By Chaz Muth – As people throughout the U.S. self-isolate and retreat from daily life amid the COVID-19 pandemic, priests and women religious have become beacons of hope globally as they mobilize in unconventional...
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 the same through conscientious service to society through the...
Priest Makes Own Vestments!
A priest from the diocese of Witbank is making his own chasubles as a way of expressing his creativity. Fr Elvis Sebina Komane, of St Joseph Mukasa parish in Emalahleni, says he developed his...
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, on September 17, 1982. He was the eldest of...
Treat Suicide With Compassion
Suicide is a difficult subject to talk about, especially for those who knew the victim. It is even more complicated in the absence of a suicide note. For Catholics it is even more daunting...
Monsignor Paul Nadal Celebrates 60 Years as a Priest!
Mgr Paul Nadal (right) swings a leg during festivities at the retro summer afternoon jazz concert and old-style tea dance organised by the Denis Hurley Centre in Durban to raise funds for the DHC’s...
Dancing Priest’s Song For Ireland
A singing and dancing priest hopes to represent Ireland in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, one of Europe’s premier annual television events. Fr Ray Kelly, 66, said if his song “Hallelujah Day” is chosen...
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 Danker had been in hospital after having suffered...
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 January 12, was a pioneer of the diocese of...
Shock And Grief Over Killing Of ‘Hero’ Priest
Catholics in the diocese of Klerksdorp were in shock and grief after a veteran priest was found killed in a robbery at a parish in Bodibe, near Mahikeng in North West Province. Fr Jozef...
