Four SA Catholics: Understanding God in African Cultural Tradition
A group of South African women took part in an international pilgrimage to Greece. CHRISTINE SCHENK spoke to four of them on their experience of being women...
Category: Women and the Church
Pope Sets Up New Commission To Study Women Deacons
By Cindy Wooden – Pope Francis has established a new “Study Commission on the Female Diaconate” as a follow-up to a previous group that studied the history of...
Pauline Jaricot: A Journey of Miracles and Fraud
In part 2 of the Pauline Jaricot story, Colleen Constable explains how Pauline was miraculously cured, how she handled betrayal and poverty, and what lessons her life...
St Anne’s Head Elected To International Board
The former national president of St Anne’s Sodality in South Africa has been nominated and confirmed as a World Union of Catholic Women’s Organisations (WUCWO) board member....
Catholic Women’s League of Bloemfontein Celebrates!
The KBBR branch of the Catholic Women’s League in Bloemfontein celebrated at Mass with the St Rose of Lima branch. The event included the investiture of three...
Look to Women in the Bible
Alvin Botes, Kimberley – Women in South Africa historically have been subjected to the brunt of oppression because of their gender, their race and their class. It...
Women Speak to Women Event at Rivonia Parish in Johannesburg
Several speakers are lined up for a Women’s month event at Rivonia parish in Johannesburg on August 24. The event, hosted as a fundraiser by the parish’s...
A First: Women Named to Curial Department for Religious
By Cindy Wooden – Pope Francis named six superiors of women’s religious orders, a consecrated laywoman and the superior of the De La Salle Christian Brothers to be...
Pope Discusses Deaconesses, Need for Nuns to be Servants not ‘Maids’
By Carol Glatz – Pope Francis told the heads of women’s religious orders from around the world they need to send sisters on assignments that truly serve the...
World’s Women to Join in Prayer
Lay women throughout the world and from all walks of life are invited to join in the Women’s World Day of Prayer (WWDP) to intercede for Slovenia,...
Papal Report on Women Deacons Submitted: SA View
Dr Annemarie Paulin-Campbell of the Jesuit Institute stayed up into the early hours to tune into a live American panel discussion on the future of women deacons,...
Women: How We Were Abused in the Church
Three female survivors of sexual abuse by priests called on Church leaders preparing for a February summit at the Vatican to listen to the voices of victims...
