Partners in mission: Dicastery promotes ‘co-responsibility’ of clergy, laity
By Cindy Wooden, CNS – For too many Catholics, ordained or lay, the responsibilities of the laity are those “delegated”...
Official Documents
The SACBC is Present and Loud
In the second part of a wide-ranging interview, SACBC president Bishop Sithembele Sipuka tells Günther Simmermacher about the bishops’ conference’s finances,...
SACBC Statement on the passing away of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
We learnt with sadness from the Apostolic Nuncio in Southern Africa yesterday about the passing on of Pope Benedict the...
SACBC on Ramaphosa’s Implementation Plan for State Capture Report
The bishops of Southern Africa have condemned “the greed and the indifference displayed by the business and political elite in...
What Exactly is the SACBC?
The Southern African Bishops’ Conference comprises 28 ecclesiastical territories — five archdioceses, 21 dioceses and one vicariate — in South...
Day of prayer for Migrants and Refugees on 25 September
Issued by SACBC – In his letter to the cardinal, archbishops, bishops, monsignors, priests, religious, deacons and all people of...
Prayer Campaign for Southern Africa
SACBC: We, your Bishops, invite you, Brothers and Sisters, to join with us in reciting this prayer daily in your...
SACBC Plenary: Missionary Commission, Seminary, Eswatini and Botswana, Safeguarding Policies
By SACBC – On the third day of the SACBC plenary 2022, the bishops discussed a possible establishment of a...
SACBC Plenary: Property rates, boundaries, synod and catechists
By SACBC – The SACBC plenary meeting 2022 is underway at Mariannhill Monastery in Pinetown, Durban. Compared with previous plenaries,...
