Nun Makes Time magazine’s 100 list
By Carol Zimmermann – Sister Norma Pimentel, a Missionary of Jesus and executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, has received numerous awards over the...
Category: Religious Life
Presentation Sister Aletha Madziro: This is My Story
Every vocation story is different. Here SR ALETHA MATISWAYIRI MADZIRO tells hers, as a Presentation Sister in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe was once considered the breadbasket of Africa, a...
Sister Lizzy: Let Go and Let God Give Light
By letting go and putting ourselves in God’s hands we can experience liberation, suggests Sr Lissy Maruthanakuzhy FSP. Between the words “Go” and “God”, the only the...
Dominican: Catholic Social Teaching has Values the World Needs
By Cindy Wooden – Individual rights and freedom obviously are essential for human flourishing, but human happiness depends a lot on relationships – kinship and friendship, but...
Fr Duncan Blackie CSsR, Rest in Peace
By Fr Sean Collins CSsR – Redemptorist Father Duncan Blackie died on August 23 in Cape Town. He was 74. He was born on April 11, 1946,...
Fr Bernhard Thiel CMM, Rest in Peace
By Archbishop Paul Mandla Khumalo CMM – Mariannhill Missionaries Father Bernhard Thiel died in a car accident on August 25 near Port Shepstone. He was 82. Born...
The Dancing Nuns: Why We Did the Jerusalema
By Daluxolo Moloantoa – One of the most heartwarming stories to come out of the lockdown is that of the #JerusalemaChallenge. People across the world have been...
Sr Ursula Hinchion, Rest in Peace
By Sr Ann Genevieve MSA – Missionary Sister of the Assumption Ursula (Mary Theresa) Hinchion passed away peacefully on August 3, aged 82, in the Buckingham Road...
Sister Ivantic, 107, Is Living In Her Second Pandemic
By Dan Stockman – For Benedictine Sister Vivian Ivantic, these times are not unprecedented. Sister Ivantic was born in 1913, five years before the Spanish flu pandemic...
St. Augustine Of Hippo: 10 Facts Every Catholic Should Know
St Augustine was born in the Roman province of Numidia, in Algeria, and was son of St Monica, the patron saint of difficult marriages, disappointing children and victims of verbal abuse.
Godfather Of Kenyan Running Is Teaching Life Lessons During Pandemic
By Fredrick Nzwili – In the Kenyan town of Iten, more than 7,800 feet above sea level, Irish Patrician Brother Colm O’Connell is working to motivate athletes overwhelmed...
Artist Honours Nuns on Mural
Artist Ed Stross paints the images of 13 Catholic nuns who died of Covid-19 on the wall of his art studio. The women religious were Felician sisters...
