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Hero honour for Jo’burg man Francis Drake, a parishioner of St Francis church in Yeoville, Johannesburg, has been awarded the Stanhope Gold Medal of the Royal Humane...

Archbishop installed More than 6000 people, including 22 bishops, Christian leaders, politicians and other dignitaries witnessed the installation of Archbishop Stephen Brislin as the fourth archbishop and...

Vatican rejects US war plans The Vatican’s foreign minister, Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, has called on the international community to avert a war on Iraq, saying that the...

Requiems in SA for Kennedy Requiem Masses were celebrated throughout South Africa for assassinated US President John F Kennedy, a Catholic. The US ambassador and government ministers attended...

Pope saw dancing sun miracle Pope Pius XII reportedly saw a repetition of Fatima’s miracle of the dancing sun four times in 1950, from October 30 to...

Extended church reopens Bishop Charles Cox of the Transvaal vicariate presided over a sung Mass at the church of La Rochelle in Johannesburg, which had been closed...

SA bishops on birth control South African bishops have responded in different ways to Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae, which restates the Catholic Church’s ban on...

McCann condemns voting ban Addressing the annual conference of the National Catholic Federation of Students, Archbishop Owen McCann stated his opposition to the apartheid government’s decision to...

GK Chesterton dead at 62 The famous English Catholic writer and poet GK Chesterton died on June 14 at the age of 62. In an appreciation, The...

One year of Zim independence The bishops of Zimbabwe have hailed a “new era of peace” following the country’s first year of independence. They thanked “our government...