Category: Religious Life - Page 51

Religious Life or Married Life?

The last two columns on the sacraments invite us to reflect on the question which is greater and holier, religious […]

By Jael SC / July 10, 2016

This year the Dominican order celebrates its 800th anniversary. The order’s influence on Catholic education in South Africa has been

By Kilian SC / July 9, 2016

Ten years ago Oblate Father Frans Claerhout, the Free State-based painter of world-renown, died. Retired journalist WINNIE GRAHAM recalls meeting

By Jael SC / June 22, 2016

From Sr Marianne Tieber FIC, Middelburg – I am delighted reading the statement by Sr Hermenegild Makoro CPS in connection with the

By Tamar SC / June 11, 2016

When the Vatican joined the international effort of creating a celestial map in 1887, four nuns were tasked with the

By Tamar SC / June 4, 2016

To follow the path of Christ means to serve the poor and the downtrodden while not turning Christian virtues simply

By Southern Cross / December 3, 2015

Rosemary Govender, Scottburgh -�In September I stayed overnight at the retreat house of the Capuchin convent in Melville, near Port

By Southern Cross / November 29, 2015

An artist spent ten years getting to know a group of strictly encloistered nuns and has written a book about

By Judith Turner / November 23, 2015

There is a story about the Messiah. It’s from M Scott Peck’s book The Different Drum, and is titled The Rabbi’s