Newsman, cartoonist Conrad Burke signs off
Conrad Burke: 1946-2024 Obituary by Günther Simmermacher To South African television viewers in the 1990s, Conrad Burke was best known as a news reporter, instantly recognisable by...
Conrad Burke: 1946-2024 Obituary by Günther Simmermacher To South African television viewers in the 1990s, Conrad Burke was best known as a news reporter, instantly recognisable by...
Church / Marian Shrines / Our Lady / Simmermacher
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published August 19, 2024
Where’s that?: Fatima is located in northern Portugal, about 130km from Lisbon. Our Lady’s connection: Apparitions to three shepherd children in 1917. Around 5 million pilgrims visit...
Some saints live unholy lives until they let God intervene. Günther Simmermacher looks at one such life — that of the founder of the Jesuits. St Ignatius...
Church / Editorials 2024 / Simmermacher / Women and the Church
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published July 29, 2024
Dear Reader, August is Women’s Month in South Africa, and in this issue we mark it in special ways. Our cover star is Sr Dominica Mkhize FSF,...
At the young age of 23, Dale de Windt is already a seasoned organist and musical director. He told Günther Simmermacher about his life, faith and dreams....
Editorials 2024 / Simmermacher
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published June 26, 2024 · Last modified June 25, 2024
Dear Reader, – South Africa has a new shrine! The Mother of Mercy shrine in Magaliesburg, poetically located near the Cradle of Humankind, may be a project...
Dear Reader, Any Catholic, whether the parishioner who sits at the end of the fifth pew in church or a distinguished bishop presiding at the altar, needs...
As we prepare to vote in the national and provincial elections on May 29, we are called by our bishops to exercise our judgment wisely when we...
Church / Church History / Our Lady / Saints / Simmermacher
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published May 13, 2024 · Last modified May 12, 2024
In 1917, three children reported visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in rural Portugal. Günther Simmermacher & Junno Arocho Esteves look at Our Lady of Fátima. As...
Dear Reader, Smiling from our cover this month is a young man of prodigious talent and a seriousness about his vocation in music that belies his age....
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