Fr Michael Brady SMA Rest in Peace
Society of African Missionaries Father Michael Brady of Limpopo died on February 17 at the age of 76, after a long illness. Born in Castlebar in County Mayo, Ireland, in 1942, he responded to...
Category: Priests
Fr Wandile Sosibo Chagwe Ordained!
Newly-ordained Durban priest Fr Wandile Sosibo Chagwe is pictured with Clementia Gambushe. As a seminarian, Fr Chagwe was supported throughout his studies by the Catholic Women’s League of Woodlands parish. He was ordained at...
Archbishop Abel Gabuza: New Graduates be the ‘Light of the World’
BY KATLEHO MOHANOE – South Africa’s bishops are depending on the country’s priests to help implement their new pastoral plan, to be released this year, according to the coadjutor archbishop of Durban. Addressing the...
Fr Simon Sibisi Ordained!
A thanksgiving Mass was held for Fr Simon Sibisi at the parish of the Immaculate Conception in Pinetown, just a day after his ordination in Durban’s Emmanuel cathedral. Fr Sibisi is seen flanked by members of his family. The...
Fr Chris Townsend: As I Move to a New Parish
Generally, I think most of my priest colleagues dread taking calls from their local ordinary — the fancy term we use for the bishop or superior. We just don’t like what those calls usually...
Fr John Melhuish MHM Rest in Peace
Mill Hill Missionary priest Fr John Melhuish of Rustenburg died in a car crash on March 23 at the age of 69. Fr Melhuish died in the accident some 2km away from his parish,...
Plane Crash Priest Felt South African
Friends have remembered the Kenyan priest with South African connections who died in this month’s Ethiopian Airlines crash in Addis Ababa as a jovial man with a sense of humour who had an outstanding...
Priest: Clericalism Leaves No Space for True Relationship
Fr Dennis Ongansie CO, Oudtshoorn – Clericalism is a big stumbling block to effective pastoral ministry because it imposes an artificial relationship on the clergy, particularly parish priests, and the Catholic faithful. As a priest,...
‘Training of priests to see faithful as without rights part of roots of abuse’
Part of the abuse crisis in the Church resides in clericalism, as Pope Francis has said, but another cause can be located in the training of priests, according to the rector of South Africa’s...
Crucifixes Stolen During Mass
Oblate crosses, some more than 100 years old, which had been passed down among priests from generation to generation, were stolen during a church service in Cape Town. Fr Jeremiah Gama OMI, pastor of...
Anti-Crime Priests on Patrol
Two priests who go on regular patrol for their local Neighbourhood Watches are encouraging other priests to take part in such activities to fight crime and as a way of connecting with people of...
Pope Lifts 34-year-old Ban on Priest
Pope Francis has lifted the canonical penalties imposed 34 years ago on Fr Ernesto Cardenal, 94, the Nicaraguan poet and former member of the Sandinista government. In a statement, Archbishop Waldemar Sommertag, the Vatican...
