Beatified Teen Showed that Heaven is Attainable Goal
By Junno Arocho Esteves – Thousands sang and applauded as Italian teen Carlo Acutis was beatified in a town dear...
Saints
Pope Hails Great Doctor of the Church St Hildegard of Bingen
Four years after the Pontifical Council for Culture instituted a Permanent Women’s Consultation Group to bring women’s experiences and voices...
Carlo Actutis Tomb Opened For Veneration Before His Beatification
By Junno Arocho Esteves – The tomb of Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian teenager who used his computer programming skills...
Padre Pio: Holy and Controversial
He is one of the Church’s most popular saints, revered for his holiness, but there was a time when even...
When Mother Teresa Came to South Africa
Today is the feast day of Mother Teresa – from our vaults, this is a recollection of when the saint...
The Bradburne Sainthood Cause
There was much rejoicing when the archdiocese of Harare officially launched the sainthood cause for John Bradburne on September 5,...
Saintly Caution: Church’s Reputation On The Line When Judging Sanctity
By Junno Arocho Esteves – In the Catholic Church, a person’s canonisation is almost always preceded by decades of meticulous investigation...
How Mary Magdalene The Apostle Was Slandered
For many centuries, Mary Magdalene was seen as the penitent prostitute in Luke’s Gospel. That view has changed only quite...
How Joan of Arc Was Burnt for Avoiding Rape
At a time when gender-based and sexual violence against women, in South Africa and elsewhere, is being described as a...
