Any Christian who has done the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius Loyola “can never give up hope”, because in these exercises “we encounter the incarnational Christ”, Anglican Archbishop Thabo Makgoba told the Jesuit Institute’s...
How a fake ‘priest conned the local Church… A Durban parish is traumatised after a man who passed himself off as a Catholic priest in three South African dioceses was discovered to be a...
THE Tavern Project against gender-based violence which has been spearheaded by Justice & Peace in Klerksdorp diocese was one of the models showcased at the ninth South African Aids Conference, held in Durban this...
Charity / Church / Erin Carelse / News
by Erin Carelse · Published April 30, 2019 · Last modified April 29, 2019
Catholic parishes around the country are being invited to participate in a major national programme to help the poor in the colder months. Every year for 17 years the Dutch Reformed Church has organised...
Senior school students at CBC St John’s Parklands in Cape Town helped pack 25 000 meals for Rise Against Hunger at Table Bay Mall. Three students and one teacher joined SABC3’s Espresso morning show...
Christian Living / Crisis / News
by Kilian SC · Published January 12, 2019 · Last modified January 11, 2019
No sooner had President Donald Trump finished his Jan. 8 nine-minute speech, his first such event televised in prime time from the Oval Office, about what he termed a crisis at the border, than...
A Pretoria Franciscan has called on his confrères throughout Africa to set up local commissaries of the Holy Land. At present, the South African commissary is the only one on the continent. Its head,...
A 24-year-old woman dumped sulfuric acid on a priest while he was hearing confessions in the Managua cathedral. Father Mario Guevara, 59, was immediately taken to the hospital and treated for burns. The Archdiocese...
by Kilian SC · Published November 24, 2018 · Last modified November 21, 2018
Saint Benedict’s College in Bedfordview, Johannesburg, has a new media centre, offering “not just books on shelves but a space for collaboration and innovation”. Fr J Robert de Sylva Media Centre was officially opened...
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by Christen Torres · Published August 1, 2018 · Last modified July 31, 2018
A famous Catholic church will be among the venues for next month’s South African tour of the Grammy-winning Minnesota Orchestra.
St Augustine’s Primary School in Durban celebrates the appointment of Craig Thomas as the first male principal of the school. A small reception was held at the school. Cardinal Wilfrid Napier attended to give...
Swiss Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, cancelled his participation in an upcoming Mass because one of the celebrants is a newly ordained priest with a history of...
