Birds of a Feather: United Under a Charism
Fr S’milo Mngadi continues his overview of SA’s sodalities. An old adage suggests that “birds of a feather flock together”. This is also an anthropological truth. People...
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What’s the Role of Sodalities in the Church?
Many lay people live their faith in sodalities. What are sodalities and how do they fit into the Church? In the first of a series of articles,...
The Sodalities of Charity
Fr S’milo Mngadi continues his overview of SA’s sodalities. The Church’s ministry is like a vehicle with four wheels. They are liturgy/worship, preaching/kerygma, teaching/catechesis and service/witness. The...
What’s a Third Order?
For lay people who don’t want to join the priesthood or religious life, there is the option of joining a ‘Third Order’. Father S’milo Mngadi explains. Not everybody...
Fr Paul Manci SCP Rest in Peace
By Fr S’milo Mngadi – Following the death of eleven members of its diocesan congregation of sisters (the FSF), the diocese of Mariannhill lost its former vicar-general,...
Orphans Visit Retired Nuns
Orphaned and vulnerable children of the Sacred Heart Home in Mthwalume, KwaZulu-Natal, celebrated national Women’s Day by visiting the retired nuns of the Daughters of St Francis...
Newspaper To Magazine: This Is A ‘Phoenix’ Moment
As from October 2020, the only national Catholic newspaper in South Africa, The Southern Cross, will become a monthly magazine. This was reported by its editor, Günther...
Let God Show Us How to Be a Father
To change the ills of society, especially violence against women, we may turn to God for a model of positive masculinity, Fr S’milo Mngadi suggests. It took...
I Have No Answers but Many Questions
The widely reported instances of sexual abuse and sexual misconduct of the clergy — two separate concepts civilly but equally against the canonical requirement of clerical obligatory...
How Can SA’s Church Brand Itself?
This year marks 200 years of Catholicism in South Africa. However, after so many years, there is no symbol, image or any such which says “Catholic Church” to any South African in the street.
