Sr Irenaea Christ OP Rest In Peace
By Sr Catherine Hilkert OP – Dominican Sister Irenaea Christ died on May 29, during afternoon community Eucharist, at the age of 85. Rosa Maria Christ was born on May 18, 1935, in Eisenharz...
Category: Religious Life
Poland’s Nuns Join Challenge, Make Rap Videos To Help Health Care Workers
By Jonathan Luxmoore – At Krakow’s stately Divine Mercy centre, the contemplative atmosphere suddenly evaporates as nuns in black habits come dancing along the corridor. “Yo yo/Rapping ain’t hard to do/It’s enough to say ‘Jesus,/I...
Sister Eleanor Wilkinson CSsR Rest in Peace
By Sr Ann Marie CSsR – Redemptoristine Sister Eleanor Wilkinson died on May 13 in Missouri in the US at the age of 85. Sr Eleanor headed the Redemptoristine community of four contemplative nuns...
Fr Kees Keijsper OP Rest in Peace
By Fr Harry Penninx OP – Dominican Father Kees Keijsper quietly passed away on March 14 at the age of 83. Cornelis Nicolaas Petrus Keijsper, or Kees, was born on December 20, 1936, in...
Fr Jack Viscardi IMC Rest in Peace
By Fr Rocco Marra IMC – Consolata Father Giovanni “Jack” Viscardi died on April 19 in Italy at the age of 88. Born at Cernusco, near Como in Italy, on March 8, 1932, Fr...
Fr Liam McDermott OFM Rest in Peace
By Archbishop William Slattery OFM – Franciscan Father Liam McDermott died on March 9 at the age of 86. A native of Ballymote in County Sligo, Ireland, where he was born in 1934, he...
Sr Helga Thomas OP Rest in Peace
Dominican Sister Helga Thomas died on April 1 at the age of 78. Hildegard Roswitha Thomas was born on October 22 1941 in Homburg-Erbach in Germany’s Saarland region, the youngest of six children. Her...
The Daughters of St Paul’s Start ‘Spiritual Adoption’
The Daughters of St. Paul have launched a “spiritual adoption” project as part of their #SpiritualCommunion online response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Spiritual adoption is a specific effort within #SpiritualCommunion for those on the...
Br Raimund Berchtenbereiter CMM Rest in Peace
Mariannhill Missionaries Brother Raimund Berchtenbereiter, the previous head of the tailor workshop at his congregation’s monastery in KwaZulu-Natal, died at the age of 79 on April 4, 2020 in Reimlingen, Germany. Born on June...
Br Evenie Turner OFM Rest in Peace
By Rupert Borman – Franciscan Brother Evenie Turner of Port Elizabeth died on Sunday, March 29, at the age of 56. Born to Venus Rose Turner in 1963, he was the eldest of five...
Passing The Time In Lockdown: Sisters Sew Face Masks
By Cindy Wooden – While most of the work at a religious order’s general headquarters continues in lockdown, a group of Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit found an additional activity where they could...
Sister Annemarie Niehsen SAC Goes Home After 52 Years!
After 52 years in South Africa, the former provincial superior of the Pallottine Missionary Sisters has returned to Germany. St Joseph’s Home for chronically ill children in Montana, Cape Town, said a special farewell...
