Why ‘Baby Priests’ Get Together
Archbishop Stephen Brislin and priests who have been in ministry for five years or less. Priestly formation never stops. That’s why “baby priests” — those, like myself, who were recently ordained — have to...
Category: Perspectives
How We Can Bring Hope to People
Last week we celebrated Heritage Day. This holiday was created in 1995 to celebrate our many cultures during a time of difficult transition for our country. It was meant to bring healing to a...
Pray With the Pope: October 2019
Pope’s Prayer Intention: That the breath of the Holy Spirit might engender a new missionary “spring” in the Church. The world, said Bl John Henry Newman, “grows old, but the Church is ever young....
Street Bookselling Gives Homeless Income
First a project turned beggars into newspaper vendors; a year later it has turned homeless people into sellers of secondhand books — and the Paper Money project of Durban’s Denis Hurley Centre (DHC) is...
26th Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
Jesus is speaking to the Pharisees; an opportunity and an invitation. But Jesus also predicts that they do not have the capacity to hear, to see, or to understand. They have been given everything,...
Portuguese Community Gears Up for Blessing of the Fleet
The Portuguese Cultural and Welfare Centre of Cape Town will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of its annual Blessing of the Fishing Fleet, a traditional community festival, in October at the V&A Waterfront. Fishermen...
Do We Sin When We Don’t fast?
The Catechism of the Catholic Church tells me that the Precepts of the Church have an obligatory character (2041). I can understand that I am obligated to attend Sunday Mass because God commands me...
Why Can’t Show That We’re Disciples?
On a Facebook group where citizens of Cape Town are able to dialogue on living in the city, someone posted a picture of rubbish lying in the street after rubbish collection day, calling for...
We Need to Talk About Mental Health
As a society we are getting better at talking about all kinds of subjects that were once taboo: gender-based violence, diverse sexual orientations, life-threatening illnesses, bullying at work or at school, and addictions. But...
The ‘Season of Creation’
It’s good, it’s wise and it sounds so nice: “Season of Creation” – a time for us to stop taking the wonderful God-given gift of creation for granted. A time to wake up...
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
A wine merchant lies on his deathbed; surrounded in hushed silence by his sons and daughters, the grandchildren; all gathered around at this sacred moment. With his last breaths, he whispered urgently to them,...
Churches Condemn Gauteng Street Violence
The violent acts, and burning and looting of business premises, mostly owned by migrants, in city centres and townships in Gauteng, have left the country in shock. “The ongoing chaos has violated basic human...
