From Our Vaults 22 Years Ago: January 8, 2003
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...
Church / Church History / From Our Vaults
by Admin · Published January 10, 2025 · Last modified January 8, 2025
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...
Church / Church History / From Our Vaults
by Admin · Published October 17, 2024 · Last modified October 15, 2024
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...
Church / Church History / From Our Vaults
by Admin · Published April 26, 2024 · Last modified April 3, 2024
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...
Church / Church History / From Our Vaults
by Admin · Published February 26, 2024 · Last modified February 23, 2024
100 years of Lourdes At least 80000 pilgrims from around the world attended the 100th anniversary celebrations of the Blessed Virgin’s first apparition to St Bernadette in...
Pope: Liberate without violence Pope Paul VI has urged Christians to become “liberators” of people suffering from famine, injustices and economic and cultural neo-colonialism, but warned them...
More