Catholics Who Do the Devil’s Work
The last place you’d expect to find a practising Catholic to ply his trade is in a satanic rock group called Deicide. But so it was with Ralph Santolla, a guitarist who died in June at the age of 51.
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Where is the Real Place of the Tranfiguration?
Tradition holds that the Transfiguration of Jesus took place on Mount Tabor, the 586 metre-high bluff which overlooks the Jezreel (or Esdraelon) plains.
When ‘Rosary Priest’ Fr Patrick Peyton came to South Africa
Fr Patrick Peyton (1909-1992) was a dynamic advocate for family prayer and a trailblazer in radio broadcast and televised evangelisation....
Visit to a Catholic Land
There is always something salutary about visiting, if one can, a place with deep Catholic roots — especially if...
Finding Jesus at the Waters
In biblical times, as today, water was vital: to be hydrated, to stay clean, to produce crops, to raise livestock. Water was life. So it is no accident that so many crucial events in the Gospel take place around water: the Sea of Galilee, the River Jordan, and the various wells and healing pools.
A Timeline of Catholicism in South Africa
As the Church marks 200 years of being established in South Africa, Günther Simmermacher gives an overview of Catholic history in the country.
How a True Football Hero Emerged
One of my proudest childhood moments was when my father, a great football journalist, quizzed me about the 1974 World Cup.
Footballers of Faith!
During this year’s World Cup, we will see many footballers cross themselves as they take to the field or after scoring goals, or exhibit their Christian faith in other ways.
Mary with Jesus in the Holy Land
In the second of his three articles on ten places where we find Mary in the Holy Land, Günther Simmermacher guides us to the Temple in Jerusalem, the wedding feast in Cana, and through Mary’s sorrow as her Son is crucified.
